Peace & Oil

A friend is one who makes me better.  It's with this highly meme-sounding quote that I'd like to start today's rambling.  I've recently been on a long trip for a wedding and I had the chance to meet some of my friends along the way. The older I get, the more I realize how delicate our lives are. Everyone is getting older, marrying, becoming pregnant, helping a sick parent. Mortality and life become real themes, we fixate into matter, and despite what I've laboriously tried to prove, there is indeed such a thing as cause and consequence. Our lives decant, or at least yours do. But that's not the point. Meeting my core friends always warms up my heart, especially in Berlin, which remains the town in which I feel the more rested. It probably is because the general atmosphere of the town is more reflective and critical, and life is less filtered by everyone's ambition to run towards success (🔛 this way guys). But that's not either the point. As I was notici

Hyo, So this is something that I've been wanting to adress for a while. During my legal studies, I was taught that the European Union, actually the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which rose in prominence parallel to the deepening of the economical European Union, had made transparency an important requisite of what constitutes a fair trial. For those who know about the law it's nothing new, so 6§1, Kress c. France, 7th of june 2001, and  21.06.2006, the French institution of the Commissaire au gouvernement, etc. Basically France has been condemned because the Commissaire au gouvernement at the Conseil d'Etat (the highest administrative court, judging on legal matters, not factual ones), now called the rapporteur public, was present during the judges' deliberations - even though he had no judging power and was not supposed to give his opinion or vote. The Commissaire au gouvernement is required to give her conclusions at the end of the debates, conclusions

In  the previous post about enlightenment  (you can click on the link, it's unlikely short for once), I said that it doesn't really exist. Deception in the audience. The author has left to fact-check on the presence of an audience.