Financial disaster Hypo Alpe Adria
Much has been written about the largest bank failure in Austrian history. So much in fact, that it was and still is difficult for observers to find to find the red / black / blue thread within the jumble of…
Author - Christian Janisch
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Presidential election: the blue surprise egg
The pollsters’ astonishment was great. Not even in the autumn of 2015 in Vienna had they been as far off as in the first round of the presidential election. Yet another head-to-head race, which failed to materialize. Given the ever…
Resettlement: orderly help for persons in distress
Imagine: a politician applying for the office of chancellor enters the election with the promise, that, should he be elected, he would admit 25,000 refugees from Syria as part of a resettlement program. And - he wins the election. This happened…
The utopian idea of an equal-chance society
Volker Frey, Secretary General of the Litigation Association, explains that the association gives legal support to people filing lawsuits for discrimination (race, religion, disability). In twelve years, there have been about fifty lawsuits, most of which were won. Since no…
The webgiants as media platforms: risk or opportunity for journalism?
Samsung is cooperating with the Axel Springer-Verlag, Apple is hiring journalists, Facebook launches "Instant Articles", Google embraces Europe's publishers with 150 million euros - Journalistic content seem to gain importance in the business models of Webgiants. What does this mean for the mainstream media?
Incumbent office holders and AFD make the grade
The German state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt are fought, the results bring electoral victory for the current office holders and also resulted in an AfD now strongly represented in all three diets.