Political philosophy

China's Population Declines for the first time in 60 years - India will become the Most Populous Nation

In 2022, China's population shrank for the first time in six decades, a historic reversal that is expected to usher in a long period of decline in the country's population with profound consequences for its economy and the world, Reuters reported.

"The last straw": Is China disappearing?

After the abrupt lift of the zero-rate Covid regime in China last month, the virus was allowed to spread freely, and the overwhelming majority responded with No, said a Shanghai-based e-commerce executive.
Tales of mothers with children unable to reach doctors in medical facilities overwhelmed by people infected with covid were the last straw.

RLI: Bulgaria at the Bottom of Europe in Terms of the Rule of Law

Bulgaria has improved its results on the rule of law, moving up two positions to 60th from last year's 62nd place among 140 countries, according to the Rule of Law Index (RLI) of The World Justice Project (WJP) for 2022. Bulgaria country has 55 points (1 more than last year) out of 100 possible.

"This time the end of history has really arrived"

Fukuyama, an American philosopher of Japanese origin, is also known for his book "The End of History and the Last Man", which he published in the early nineties, in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies was largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Vučić received an invitation to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth

Either President Aleksandar Vucic or Prime Minister Ana Brnabi will go to the funeral, which will depend on the upcoming trip of President Vui to New York, for the session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Queen Elizabeth, the longest-lived British monarch, died on September 8 at the age of 97, and will be buried in London on September 19.

China’s jobless youth left in the lurch

China's slowing economy has left millions of young people fiercely competing for an ever-slimming raft of jobs and facing an increasingly uncertain future.    

Official data released this month showed one in five young people in Chinese cities was out of work in July - more than three times the national average and the highest recorded since January 2018.    

Opponents of Covid restriction changes to collect signatures in autumn

Ljubljana – The proponents of two referendum initiatives challenging the changes to the communicable diseases act which govern epidemic restrictions are to start collecting signatures for the votes on 1 September if a referendum on the bill is permitted by legal experts.

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