Nice piece by @Marcus_How89 on the Austrian post-WWII neutrality model juxtaposed with today's #Ukraine️ . THE VIEW FROM MITTELEUROPA: Ukraine and the ‘Austrian solution’

RT @DarthPutinKGB: Kremlin media deny Russian involvement & quote RyanAir pilots thanking Belarus for chance to see Minsk cathedral https:/….

What a ride.

#Budapest’s liberal mayor enters race to be opposition PM candidate in 2022 - another center vs periphery political battle in central Europe.

RT @panyiszabolcs: An underreported big story from Hungary: struggling to keep his supermajority in parliament, Orbán relies on votes of fa….

This is a bit dated piece on #Hungary's Fidesz long courtship of the #German #CDU, but I love it! Highly recommend this to anyone interested in central/eastern #Europe's politics. By @direkt36 .

RT @sinopsiscz: "Není příliš jasné, na základě jakých předpokladů by se měl Birke stát ministrem kultury - zato je nad slunce jasnější, pro….

5. physical assault, as if being verbally assaulted unavoidably necessitates a physically violent reaction in a law-of-nature kind of way. I mean the narrative is just really out of balance.

4. I was always told by my parents that violence is not the solution. At the very least, both of those guys failed on a very basic human level. Nevertheless, as mentioned above, the anglo (English-language) press talks only about racism, only very briefly mentioning Kamara's.

3. That being said, I still think that any person equipped with at least an average moral compass familiar with all the circumstances of the game would view Kamara's physical assault against Kudela as "the event".

2. I am not saying that whatever was said during the game is insignificant. I also have very little doubt about the truthfulness of Kamara's words describing the situation. I think Kudela was being racist in that moment, and I think it's really said and absolutely inappropriate.

1. scrutiny is "the racist incident". This is "the event". This is what happened during the game, and the whole subsequent discussion will be centred around that event. "Racial abuse of Kamara", "Czechs have a racist problem", "racism in football", etc.

Another article about #racism by @davidhuttjourno . I have to say, this is really slowly getting on my nerves. My problem with this article, and indeed the whole surrounding debate (in the Anglo press), is that the "incident" selected for further.

RT @isocockerell: Automated gender recognition is often built in to AI systems. I wrote about the campaign to ban it ft @farbandish @access….

RT @OCCRP: Cyprus has a new registry that requires companies to reveal their "ultimate beneficial owners," information that is critical in….

Looks like #Hungary's political-economic model is more and more resembling those in countries of on post-#Soviet space. What a shame.

RT @kgb_files:

"the result could see at least two electric vehicle ecosystems — one dominated by #Tesla with most of its technology in-house, akin to #Apple's iPhone — and a rival similar to #Samsung which uses #Android . This is fascinating - the future of car-making.

RT @OCCRP: U.S. authorities warned art and antiquity traders that they will need to start submitting Suspicious Activity Reports for dubiou….

"Team Europe is ready to support the region’s economies in overcoming this unprecedented crisis".