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 >
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 >
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 >
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 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 >
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 >
OMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW, THE HEADY MIX OF INCOMPETENCE AND DISILLUSIONMENT WITH PARLIAMENT WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE THAT PIGS WILL FLY IN NEVERLAND BY WOLFGANG GEISSLER Hand on heart, who still remembers Gisela Stuart? On that morning, Friday, 6 April 2018 at the venerable “Presseclub Concordia” I felt I was in the wrong ... Weiterlesen >
BORIS JOHNSON SAYS: “WE NEED TO RESTORE THE CLAPPER, IN ORDER TO BONG BIG BEN ON BREXIT NIGHT AND THAT IS EXPENSIVE.” BY WOLFGANG GEISSLER “The bongs cost £500.000 … but we are working on a plan so that people can bung a bob for a Big Ben bong” “Bung a bob” is ... Weiterlesen >
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BRING A DIVIDED SOCIETY TOGETHER? BY JOCHEN RESSEL Following the Austrian mass media through the last years made it quite clear: The Brexit is perceived as an error by the UK people. Politicians should just go for a new referendum (no clue why they simply don’t do it…) ... Weiterlesen >
