Watch on RTL PLAY Colette Flesch, was the first woman to become mayor of Luxembourg City in 1970. The politician discusses her life and work, and immigration in Luxembourg. Colette Flesch is a former member of the Chamber of Deputies, former MEP, and former Olympic athlete. In this pilot episode of Conversations with Christos, they… Continue reading A conversation with Colette Flesch
Do you have the time to listen to me whine about everything and anything all at once? If you feel like singing this sentence out loud, it is because I’m paraphrasing it from Green Day’s ‘Basket Case’, a song released in 1994, a year after I was born but before the internet became what it is… Continue reading Everything and Anything, all at once
L'importance de la participation dans une démocratie (lire en francais) Barack Obama, in his reply to a student in April 2016, said the following (and it stuck with me since): On your college campuses, half the folks, maybe two-thirds of the folks who don’t vote don’t vote because they’re just not paying attention.They don’t consider… Continue reading The Importance of Participation in a Democracy
Foreign Residents and their role in Luxembourgish society, and my plea to get you to participate. The biggest issue I need to highlight is that only about 1 in 10 of our foreign residents participate in our local elections. Elections that are far more important than the turnout suggests.
Everyone is running on a different treadmill. Everything in its right place and time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCkT4K-hppE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2SYPI7N8-Y
Christos Floros 