You, my humble reader, will find some notes, comments, remarks, reflections, longer texts on a region in crisis after two decades of transformation. Writing from Hungary will determine the geogrpahical perspective, even if I'm convinced of the existence of ECE, and I will try to collect and evaluate informations from elsewhere in order to highlight similarities and differences. Otherwise, writing a blog is a substitute for the barely existent critical discourse on our past and present ...
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Welcome, Poland! - notes on exceptionalism IV.
The polish prime minister announced this day that his country approached the IMF and negotiationg on "cooperation". According to the PAP press agency the premier stressed that the move was not to get a loan, instead to have "witnesses" that Poland is capable to withstand the actual storm. Poland is not in a similar situation as other countries in the region, do not need to beg for help - said Tusk, sticking to his earlier assessment of the situation, infamously expressed at the last EU summit when he was among those heads of governemnts who were denouncing the proposals of the Hungarian prime minister regarding a regional package. Tragic and ridiculous.
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