Szomszedok - form my childhood

This is about a hungarian TV show, that was basicly not just a simple TV show... but gave a correct overview of the hungarian lifestyle in the 1980's. The TV show was broadcast during 12,5 years.

Watching it now on youtube is one of my favorite activites nowadays. It is just HILARIOUS!!!!
And look what I 've found today:

I keep looking for the rest... ;)

You can't touch the Swiss

I got this video from a collegue... check it out.. it is funny... ;)

Hungary, where are you sinking?

It is shocking...I am speechless.

Can't find the words regarding the recent happenings in Hungary.

A well-known, famous romanian handball player, who plays in a great hungarian team, was stabbed in the heart, and died on Sunday.

It is shocking...

Nobody believes that such a terrible thing could happen nowadays.

And yet, the second or third comment of that news was already: yes, the socialist government's other achievement...

Come on, people... !!!

And, this comment was also made by one of my classmates at the university.

He is now doing a PhD in a well-known, prestigous university...

Seriously...

I am fed up with the government too... but seriuosly... this is ridiculous..

How is that again the fault of Gyurcsany?

Pff.. people should think a little...

I don't agree with the policies the government applies on the minorities ... (let's face it... on the gypsies either... ) but PEOPLE!!!
Seriously!!!

I really hope that whoever did this terrible thing, will be punished... as he deserves it.

I am also glad that the police managed to arrest them...

can not even imagine, if only half of those things are coming true what the newspapers and he people in the comments are writing ... revange with 100 - 300 ex-soldiers... and they are all waiting in front of the hungaraian border...

Seriously... this is the world we live in?

Pff...

Yes on immigration referendum

Well, well, well...
Long time no update.. I know.
So, here I am...back from Snowattack - skiing week in France - it deserves an other post... ;)

On February 8th there was a referendum held in Switzerland for extending the right of EU citizens to live and work in Switzerland...actuallly it was for renewing the already existing agreement allowing migrant workers into Switzerland and extending it to Bulgaria and Romania.

Despite all the negative campaign, swiss voted yes...
59,6% of the voters backed this deal.

It was quiet a big deal.. as the EU has already indicated, if Switzerland would vote "No", the EU would use the guillotine clause and will cancel also the first package of bilateral agreements.

There were some very interesting negative campaigns as well... mainly by the ultra-rightist Swiss People's Party.













I understand that in this economic downturn swiss are also afraid of a huge wave of immigrants, and that poor romanians and bulgarians are taking the jobs instead of the swiss, since eastern europeans are cheaper labour.

However, the free movement goes on the other way around too... Swiss people are allowed to work in the EU as well, and cancelling all the bilateral agreement would not help the trade within the EU too...

Actually, it goes like this:
- you earn the most if you graduated in St. Gallen University
- then the rest of the swiss universities
- then the french people
- then the rest of the world...

So, of course, the fear of huge influx of eastern europeans is understandable...