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Dési, András
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Social Democrats down for the count
The left-liberal daily Népszabadság comments on the SPD's bitter election defeat in Germany's federal elections: "After eleven years in government the German Social Democrats are demolished. Their miserable results in the election (23 percent) also mean that the gap between them and the Greens and the deep-red The Left party has narrowed dramatically. Not so long ago, back in 1998, the SPD was able to garner 41 percent of the vote as the leading force of the Left. … What has happened to the SPD now could already be observed in other European countries. The times when the socially disadvantaged were represented by a single big party are gone. And on top of that the SPD has faced competition from left-wing rivals twice within a short period of time. First the Greens lured away its voters and then The Left party did the same. The SPD has neither been able to find answers to the age of globalisation nor has it come to terms with the other left-wing parties. It seems to be facing a hopeless situation."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Germany
The controversy in Germany over integration and assimilation
The newspaper's Germany correspondent András Dési comments on Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's speech in Cologne: "It may sound rather bizarre, but Erdogan has actually done German politicians a favour. The Turkish leader knows full well that German conservatives reject the idea of Turkey joining the EU. The message of the Cologne spectacle is that although political objections and excuses can be found to put obstacles in Turkey's way, economically Turkey has in fact been integrated in the EU for some time, and the presence of more than 5.3 million Turks (some calculations even put the figure at 15 million) in the countries of the EU is a fact of life. The döner is here to stay in the everyday lives of Germans and western Europeans, even if many still find it rather indigestible."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » EU enlargement, » Domestic Policy, » Germany, » Europe, » Turkey
Bucharest - new center of the Balkans
Three weeks before Romania's accession to the EU, András Dési has discovered the new centre of the Balkans in Bucharest: a "bustling, vibrant, colourful" city that has "developed at breakneck speed... For Bucharest - its official population is 2.5 million, but weekday commuters swell that number to four million - the old clichés still fit. Behind the flag-bedecked Ministry for European Integration, stray dogs wander among piles of trash. Only five kilometres away is an encampment of Roma that is in terrible condition; its neighbours have erected a barbed-wire fence... Currently, mega-investors are waiting to sink a total of four billion euros into the city. The TriGránit Company is building a new district, the Esplanada City Center, whose modern apartment buildings are meant to compensate for the terrible view of the Palace of the People, built during the days of the dictator Ceausescu. Bucharest's economic development is limping five to ten years behind the other great cities of eastern central Europe, but there is no reason to write off the residents of Bucharest. Instead of just gabbing, they are getting down to business."
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More from the press review on the subject » Architecture / Cities, » South East Europe, » Romania
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