Controversies are meaningful if they take place in a climate of mutual respect. If we succeed in constantly arousing “curiosity about the different” anew, we will not only remain ready to talk, but will also be able to broaden our own horizons.

Why the world cannot become a better place after Corona if we overlook the fact that we give up our civil rights and liberties without a fight and become “compliant subjects".

Quite rarely are narratives the result of rational analysis; rather, they arise from the coincidental confluence of wishful thinking, value judgments, day-to-day politics, and the adherence to the order government elites have invented.

The campaigns for the EU parliamentary elections degenerate into political folklore. This hides the fact that the EU Parliament has no democratically legitimated constitutional structure comparable to a state.

Whilst yellow vests’ protests in France continue, confusion about causes and effects is growing in the public discourse. Even if the matter is complex the EU’s political elite need to get to the roots of the problem quickly.

The EU elite is constraining the legislative and judiciary powers for the benefit of the executive. With artificial intelligence looming on the horizon, will this turn out to be a fatal development?

Instead of engaging in substantial political discourse within and outside their own ranks, the EU elite continue to promulgate dogmata to justify their ignorance of one another’s sovereignty.

Leading German language media is creating its own conception of the world and thereby refraining from its grip on reality. A short analysis based on the interview with the President of the Russian Federation with Austrian Broadcasting Corporation.

From today's point of view, the result of the general elections, in one way or another, is for the British to withdraw from the EU. Clarity could only be achieved by a new referendum or by a withdrawal of the resignation request before January 31st, 2020.

The EU cannot deal with the withdrawal of Member States. But isn’t this crisis a symptom that our political systems are eroding? Democratic institutions lack the means and possibilities to solve today’s complex problems.