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  • Unity through institutions.
    Quotation // “Willensgemeinschaft”

    So how has the Swiss nation-state, once Utopian idea, become a reality? How was Switzerland able to keep its independence as a political nation and deal with its economic, social and cultural conflicts? And, finally, how was Switzerland able to turn itself into a modern, industrialised nation, and develop a form of democracy that in…

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  • Right to privacy.
    Quotation

    Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say. — Edward Snowden See also: 01 02 Datenschutz/ Democrazia/ Grundrechte/ Recht/ Tech&Com/ Ungehorsam+Widerstand/ · Zitać/ · · · · · English/ Einen…

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  • Zu späte Offenheit?

    Financial-Times-Analyst David Gardner berichtet heute in einem Kommentar von der zaghaften Öffnung des spanischen Premierministers Mariano Rajoy (PP) und des Oppositionsführers Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) gegenüber Katalonien — die jedoch möglicherweise um Jahre zu spät komme. »Besser spät als nie«, so Gardner, sei ein auf die Politik nicht ohne weiteres anwendbarer Grundsatz. Konkret habe sich Rajoy…

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  • Why Europe should welcome a referendum in Catalonia.

    The Catalans’ historic grievances with Spain have intensified in recent years. A deadlock has been created by the Spanish refusal to even consider repeated proposals coming from Catalonia, including an honest attempt to renegotiate the 1979 autonomy charter. Starting in 2005, a new text was drafted and approved by the Catalan Parliament, and subsequently endorsed…

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  • Will the Italian language be outlawed?

    [In] what other part of the world would it be possible to outlaw the language of the state? This question of Alessandro Urzì, post-fascist member of South Tyrolean Landtag (parliament), quoted by the BBC, is an interesting one, since it can be answered at different levels: Urzì refers to South Tyrol, where nobody even thinks…

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  • Alles Spalter.

    Eine der Grundvoraussetzungen für Demokratie ist, dass ich die freie Wahl zwischen zumindest zwei Optionen habe. Ohne diese Wahlmöglichkeit gibt es keinen Meinungspluralismus. Ein solcher wiederum ist Wesensmerkmal einer Demokratie. Man möchte also meinen, dass Wahl- und Abstimmungsergebnisse, bei denen sich die Menschen auf Basis ihrer politischen Überzeugungen mittels ihrer Stimme einem Lager zuordnen, Teil…

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