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4 November 2025
Before the elections to the European Parliament, nothing seems likely to change and nothing will until we change ourselves.
You know the feeling, that something is in the air and that nothing at the end of that day will be the same as before. And I must admit, I have this feeling these days, and closer the day for European Parliament election gets, the more intensive this feeling becomes. Am I paranoid? And who is not in this region, in Slovakia?
Wars of Words
This feeling is omnipresent, and I could describe it with the annotation “Everything goes” in dating columns for daily newspapers. And that’s the same feeling that I have when I look at the candidates and parties running for the EP. “Everything goes” is currently visible also in electoral campaigns, and these have descended into a cultural war of words about belonging to the West, to Europe, cherishing the traditional family values, church, the purity of us – Slovaks, belonging to an open and liberal society, to a traditional and conservative community, or simply to…(something).
At first glance, it seems like these wars of words have no common origin. But this is not correct, all the forces that emerged in 2016 and after are becoming more and more powerful because they are free to say whatever they wish without facing the consequences; these harmful thoughts and ideas are not demonised and marginalised as they were before.
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