WHAT FOOTBALL CLUBS ARE CURRENTLY FACING BY JOCHEN RESSEL Sports associations, clubs and sports facilities are confronted with numerous questions and are required to provide answers. But the Covid19 crisis has not made it easier. The challenges they are facing include: Security issues (sponsors and officials require reliable strategies to fight hooliganism and ... Weiterlesen >
TO WHICH CULTURE DOES JACOB CHRISTOPH RAD BELONG, WHO WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND, GREW UP IN GALICIA, LIVED IN VIENNA AND, AS A FACTORY DIRECTOR, INVENTED THE SUGAR LUMP IN MORAVIA? FIRST PUBLISHED IN “SOCIETY” NO 378, DECEMBER 2020 -JUNE 2021. BY EMIL BRIX HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRO-BRITISH SOCIETY. In Central Europe, ... Weiterlesen >
OPPORTUNITY OR THREAT FOR DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES? BY JOCHEN RESSEL When the picture above appeared, some might have thought: It comes four years too late – but better now than never. The delete button has not even been fully released when a discussion was initialised, including some serious questions: Is it right for a ... 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 >
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 PREMIER LEAGUE IN TIMES OF CORONA BY CHRISTIAN STEINER Just like more or less every football league in Europe, the English Premier League was forced into taking a break in the middle of March with Leicester City's 4-0 victory against relegation threatened Aston Villa on the 9th of March being the final ... Weiterlesen >
IS THERE A WAY TO SUCCEED FOR POLITICIANS IN TIMES OF CRISIS? BY JOCHEN RESSEL “Politik ist die Kunst des Möglichen” said the German statesman Otto von Bismarck once – a quote which can be translated only in a humbling way: „Politics is the art of the possible.” But is there anything possible ... Weiterlesen >
WHAT THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL CLASS AND THE BRITISH SYSTEM OF PLEBISCITARY DEMOCRACY HAVE TO DO WITH THE PRESENT COVID-19 CRISIS IN THE UK. BY WOLFGANG GEISSLER You may be forgiven to wonder whether it is the similar hairstyle that is the reason for the catastrophic handling of the Covid-19 crisis on either ... Weiterlesen >
