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Munsberg, Hendrik
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Anti-globalisation activists and violence
"The security concept for the G8 summit in Germany, which the local authorities had been working on for two years, has failed," writes Hendrik Munsberg. "According to statements of eye witnesses and authorities, around two thousand left-wing militants appeared out of nowhere to provoke violent clashes. Many of them had travelled to Germany from abroad: from Bulgaria, Russia, Japan, Sweden and France. Globalised violence against globalisation. Up to now no one has been able to explain how the instigators of the rioting were able to make their way to the demonstration despite stringent controls, even passing through national border controls undetected. Apparently, the radicals have refined their techniques for escaping the attention and the clutches of the authorities."
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The federalism reform
"A project of this scale results in confusion more than anything else," Hendrik Munsberg points out. "It's easy to predict what the most detrimental effect of the entire project will be: the federal government will be largely excluded from educational policy. In future, this vital sector will be entirely left to the discretion of the individual states. This means that the current disparities in terms of education between north and south, east and west, will become even more pronounced. The world's third-largest economy is willing to permit its crucially important education sector to be systematically reduced to provincial standards. The plans to extend the federal government's authority in environmental law will be similarly ineffectual. Although the Bundestag can pass a comprehensive framework of environmental laws which theoretically applies to all states, in practice this won't work because at the same time the states have been given permission to deviate from the regulations. So what are they trying to achieve? Who knows. One thing's for sure: this is not the way to trim down the red tape."
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