The more I think about it, the more I feel we are trapped in a “gaze” dilemma: policymakers look at aggregates, curves, and quarterly reports, yet fail to see the expressions on neighborhood streets, the processes inside factories, or the queues in schools and clinics. The EU’s original promise was the Four Freedoms, free movement … Continue reading From Freedom to Demography: How Europe Lost Sight of Its Own Promise
The European Union was built on a visionary premise: a single market where people, goods, and capital flow freely, bolstered by the Euro as a common currency. At its core, the EU aimed to foster an integrated economic system where a Polish engineer could seamlessly work in France or a Spanish designer could collaborate in … Continue reading The Economics of Immigration in the EU: When Policy Intent Meets Real-World Outcomes
I often feel a deep sense of dissonance in everyday life a friction born of temporal gaps and the misplacement of intellectual tiers. Many around me continue to live under value systems that are obsolete yet stubbornly ingrained, as if they are truth and the correct way to live. This feeling is not a product … Continue reading The Cage of Old Ideas: My Reflection on Contemporary Values and Cognitive Disparities
Lately, I’ve been asking myself a difficult question: does merit still matter? What triggered this reflection were two separate incidents that, at first glance, might appear unrelated. But when I looked more closely, they revealed something deeply unsettling about the structural logic of certain systems in Europe. particularly how status, privilege, and identity can often … Continue reading Is Merit Still Relevant? Two Incidents That Made Me Question the Foundations of European Society
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