What is real, what is dream, what is nightmare?
Culture Tour — Order Must Be
Order is half of life — so say the lyrics in one of the songs on Peter Maffay’s album Tabaluga. So is the other half disorder? Or are disorder and order one and the same? At first glance, this is certainly a rather strange thought; but when you look at the traffic here, you can…
Culture Tour — Lost in Time and Space
The village, my village, det smukke by Møgeltønder: about 1,000 inhabitants, and somehow amazing how quiet it is: walking along the main street, you rarely meet anyone, although somehow everyone seems to know everyone else, direct contact is limited to the five neighbouring houses. The train station — I have to go to Suzhou in…
Culture tour — To The Provinces In Europe
Province — using this term is often perceived as an affront. But perhaps that will change and people will look longingly back to the real world, where life was simply more comfortable? Consumo ergo sum — I consume, therefore I am. It is probably a global trend, even though consumption still varies greatly in terms…
Culture tour – Greetings from afar.
A break, leaving the office for a short walk across the campus, around the small pond in front of my office building, my thoughts lost in life between worlds – a privilege not to be here on holiday. Music is coming from one of the nearby buildings, I look through the door: dance performances. A…
A United Europe … an ambition that has a long tradition, characterised by ups and downs
(scroll down for Dansk [machine translation], Deutsch, Français, Italiano) One could also use a different wording as the ambition had not been solely and perhaps not even primarily led by the idea of global peace. Today we must remember the critique that had been frequently brought forward: a Fortress Europe, striving for competitiveness, directed against…
Fearing for jobs?
There is so much talk about the loss of jobs — all the executives, not least the many “activists” in the field of artificial intelligence are presenting the dystopias … no jobs in the future. Why are THEY speaking of such supposedly bleak future. In fact, they show that we have a pool of new…
standards
Sure, money doesn’t make happy – nevertheless it helps; if it is not helping those who earn (not deserve) it, it helps people like you and me who must understand the world, or better: who should know things that cannot be understood. Baerbock is now in this top position that brings her according to the…
memories revived — United Nations
Ah no, I never made it to the United Nations highest Assembly – and you surely will find it strange that I remember right now a little episode from the days before I left Ireland and UCC. A VIP (Very Important Person) came to the Departmental Meeting, talking about the new strategy of the University…
The election of Leo XIV and a forgotten message
Having lived in Rome for several years and even taught at the Pontificia Università degli Studi San Tommaso d’Aquino, I have developed a specific interest in the Catholic Church, or more precisely, in the Vatican. It is a contradictory structure: consider that access to certain ‘inner parts’ is only possible by saying a password, which is…
small print
Often we find more important messages sidelined, seemingly of lesser importance than what may be expected when looking at headline and topic. The Handelsblatt, the German newspaper that provides essential news about economic developments, publishes a podcast, looking at economic challenges. The 09-05-2025 edition had been titled Deutsche Wirtschaftspolitik: Neuer Optimismus trotz globaler Unsicherheiten More…
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