Amazing

The speed of news in politics surfacing these days is accelerating at such a pace, that one can hardly react. The main reason is not so much the quantity, it's rather the contents. It leaves a reader in absolute awe as in how far politics, in particular government, is able to pull their behaviour on the brink of (or even far beyond) ridicule. 

Just to summarise a few highlights: The Slovak Supreme Court excelled with a remarkable verdict, that official documents are not to be seen as information (and therefore no to be disclosed; the public has therefore absolutely no right to appeal on the Free Access of Information), making the already murky decision-making even less transparent as it is. For a so-called democratic EU country, a very bitter but simultaneously a ludicrous explanation. 

Going back a bit further, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Lajčák, in a newspaper interview, called the Hungarian president being arrogant. With all due respect for a minister of Foreign Affairs, but would one expect from a diplomat to openly label another head of state being arrogant? Whether one has perhaps a different opinion; for an interview this is definitively not a suitable quote, especially not for the boss of diplomacy.

Prime-minister Fico still refuses to go into a duel with his main opponents. Call it whatever you like, but what is the least a political leader is expected to do in a democratic state, remains a silly game of hide and seek. Despite some small critical pin-pricks in the press, public television is hardly doing anything to draw attention.

This week, the Slovak Minister of Justice, Ms Petríková was announced as a speaker at the UN conference in Brazil's Salvador da Bahía. A moustached man - definitively not a Ms, but the Slovak Ambassador - appeared behind the microphone, and without any explanation why the announce minister was not able to speak, he read a English text full of grammar errors (seems Slovakia's government has a chronic difficulty to hire a person sufficiently well equipped with Shakespeare's language). For two days this performance was a shrouded mystery - no communication even from the Ministry. Except of some boulevard type of accusations towards the opposition, when inquiring in the matter. just pitiful.

One can really not keeping pace with all these matters and they double and triple each day. One can only stay in awe. One's jaw dropping every time you open the newspaper. How far, is this government able to stretch the patience of the people, making government into a cheap satirical theatre. With one footnote; it is lacking humour. This costly theatre is surpassing it all. It's in one word more than amazing!

MS

The speed of news in politics surfacing these days is accelerating at such a pace, that one can hardly react. The main reason is not so much the quantity, it's rather the contents. It leaves a reader in absolute awe as in how far politics, in particular government, is able to pull their behaviour on the brink of (or even far beyond) ridicule. Just to summarise a few highlights: The Slovak Supreme Court excelled with a remarkable verdict, that official documents are not to be seen as information (and therefore no to be disclosed; the public has therefore absolutely no right to appeal on the Free Access of Information), making the already murky decision-making even less transparent as it is. For a so-called democratic EU country, a very bitter but simultaneously a ludicrous explanation. Going back a bit further, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Lajčák, in a newspaper interview, called the Hungarian president being arrogant. With all due respect for a minister of Foreign Affairs, but would one expect from a diplomat to openly label another head of state being arrogant? Whether one has perhaps a different opinion; for an interview this is definitively not a suitable quote, especially not for the boss of diplomacy. Prime-minister Fico still refuses to go into a duel with his main opponents. Call it whatever you like, but what is the least a political leader is expected to do in a democratic state, remains a silly game of hide and seek. Despite some small critical pin-pricks in the press, public television is hardly doing anything to draw attention. This week, the Slovak Minister of Justice, Ms Petríková was announced as a speaker at the UN conference in Brazil's Salvador da Bahía. A moustached man - defenitively not a Ms, but the Slovak Ambassador - appeared behind the microphone, and without any explanation why the announce minister was not able to speak, he read a english text full of grammar errors (seems Slovakia's government has a chronic difficulty to hire a person sufficiently well equipped with Shakespeare's language). For two days this performance was a shrouded mystery - no communication even from the Ministry. Except of some boulevard type of accusations towards the opposition, when inquiring in the matter. just pitiful. One can really not keeping pace with all these matters and they double and triple each day. One can only stay in awe. One's jaw dropping every time you open the newspaper. How far, is this government able to stretch the patience of the people, making government into a cheap satirical theatre. With one footnote; it is lacking humour. This costly theatre is surpassing it all. It's in one word more than amazing! MS

The speed of news in politics surfacing these days is accelerating at such a pace, that one can hardly react. The main reason is not so much the quantity, it's rather the contents. It leaves a reader in absolute awe as in how far politics, in particular government, is able to pull their behaviour on the brink of (or even far beyond) ridicule. Just to summarise a few highlights: The Slovak Supreme Court excelled with a remarkable verdict, that official documents are not to be seen as information (and therefore no to be disclosed; the public has therefore absolutely no right to appeal on the Free Access of Information), making the already murky decision-making even less transparent as it is. For a so-called democratic EU country, a very bitter but simultaneously a ludicrous explanation. Going back a bit further, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Lajčák, in a newspaper interview, called the Hungarian president being arrogant. With all due respect for a minister of Foreign Affairs, but would one expect from a diplomat to openly label another head of state being arrogant? Whether one has perhaps a different opinion; for an interview this is definitively not a suitable quote, especially not for the boss of diplomacy. Prime-minister Fico still refuses to go into a duel with his main opponents. Call it whatever you like, but what is the least a political leader is expected to do in a democratic state, remains a silly game of hide and seek. Despite some small critical pin-pricks in the press, public television is hardly doing anything to draw attention. This week, the Slovak Minister of Justice, Ms Petríková was announced as a speaker at the UN conference in Brazil's Salvador da Bahía. A moustached man - defenitively not a Ms, but the Slovak Ambassador - appeared behind the microphone, and without any explanation why the announce minister was not able to speak, he read a english text full of grammar errors (seems Slovakia's government has a chronic difficulty to hire a person sufficiently well equipped with Shakespeare's language). For two days this performance was a shrouded mystery - no communication even from the Ministry. Except of some boulevard type of accusations towards the opposition, when inquiring in the matter. just pitiful. One can really not keeping pace with all these matters and they double and triple each day. One can only stay in awe. One's jaw dropping every time you open the newspaper. How far, is this government able to stretch the patience of the people, making government into a cheap satirical theatre. With one footnote; it is lacking humour. This costly theatre is surpassing it all. It's in one word more than amazing! MS