GUEST COMMENT THE DAYTON AGREEMENT OFFICIALLY ENDED THE WAR IN BOSNIA 25 YEARS AGO - WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM MISTAKES AND WHY A MORE ROBUST, COMMON EU FOREIGN POLICY IS NEEDED. FIRST PUBLISHED IN “WIENER ZEITUNG” 14.12.2020 BY PHILIPP JAUERNIK “I didn't understand Sarajevo's uniqueness until I was gone. Before the War ... Weiterlesen >
AND WHAT 2020 TOLD US ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ARTS. BY JOCHEN RESSEL With only a short interruption in the autumn, the cultural life stands almost still since March 2020. There are no live concerts, no theatre or opera performances with public attendance, no public readings, no comedy shows, no museums open, no ... Weiterlesen >
THE STRANGE CASE OF ENGLISH NATIONALISM. BY WOLFGANG GEISSLER Ambassador Colin Munro, fellow Austro-British Society board member and Chairman of the United Kingdom Citizens in Austria suggested after reading my recent Blog "From Assimilation to Integration, from Separation to Marginalisation" that I should be concentrating on the subject of Identity in greater detail, which I am going to ... Weiterlesen >
THE PUB AND THE BUG BY IAN MURDOCH Fyfe Robertson - a BBC TV Reporter in the 1960's - remarked in his "Search for the Perfect Pint" that it was not just the quality of the beer that mattered, but where you drank it and who you drank it with. The success of ... Weiterlesen >
WHAT THE BACKBONE OF DEMOCRACY REQUIRES BY MAG. ALEXANDER CABJOLSKY & JOCHEN RESSEL (in appreciation and to honour Mag. Cabjolsky, who passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 8th, 2020 – R.I.P) It is out of the question that we live in extraordinary times of a pandemic where expectations and requirements for legislative personnel in Governmental ... Weiterlesen >
THE ALL IMPORTANCE OF THE OMNIBUS MELANIE SULLY Covid Vaccines are now coming thick and fast thankfully. It’s like waiting for a bus, you wait a long time and then along come two or three all at once. This was particularly true in a city like Bristol which had a notoriously bad bus ... Weiterlesen >
THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND CULTURAL CHANGE AND THE RISK FACTORS FOR ACCULTURATIVE STRESS DUE TO IMMIGRATION. BY WOLFGANG GEISSLER “From a historical viewpoint, it makes no difference whether it was Abraham, who projected this experience onto an imaginary Jehovah or a real Jehovah who proposed it to Abraham. The fact remains ... Weiterlesen >
HEALTHCARE IN AUSTRIA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM BY WOLFGANG GEISSLER Things could not have been more complicated. The subject I was about to write has not been delayed by the Lockdown Number Two but by a horrendous crime. Two hours before that Lockdown a crazed IS follower went on a rampage armed with ... Weiterlesen >
THE YANKEE DOODLE “INVASION” BY MELANIE SULLY In preparation for the D Day landings in the Second World War many US troops were stationed in the UK in places like the West of England. They arrived after long journeys by boat and often were to receive a mixed reception by the locals. For ... Weiterlesen >
WHO IS "THE BRITISH MOTORING INDUSTRY" IN 2020? BY WOLFGANG BUCHTA In 2019 the United Kindom produced - according to the "European Automobile Manufacturers Association" - more than 1.3 million passenger cars which put the UK into the fifth position in Europe after Germany, Spain, France and the Czech Republic. So everything is ... Weiterlesen >
