The climate crisis which is not a distant problem of oceans and foreign UN speakers but already affects the health of our children, our nature and our life expectancy. And this safety - as was discussed during the Congress - is threatened by a range of significant phenomena. The citizens of this country have the right to expect its politicians to fulfil the task that has been entrusted to them: to ensure safety to the people and to the country. And in the action plan for those next 15-20 years. But in the perspective of the next 15-20 years. Therefore today, on behalf of citizens, I take the liberty to remind politicians - persons responsible for managing this country: challenges and your tasks lie elsewhere. We are merely looking for solutions to safeguard our well-being 'here and now' as later 'it will somehow work', 'we cannot be bothered what happens once we are gone' or 'we let our successors worry about the future'. Yet, serious problems and challenges which, in the future, will affect our everyday life are omitted from the political discourse.Īs a state we fail to hold strategic debates, to establish crisis panels, and look for solutions for the imminent, profound threats. It is up to us to create a strategy of further development for our country and the continent.īecause politics equals responsibility.

It is up to us to decide how we are going to approach them. We are about to face profound civilization challenges. This is not what the mission of ruling a country should be about. This is not what politics should be about. Such ping-pong rarely leads to anything good as far as the shaping of our future is concerned. I am concerned that the whole political and media discourse is currently swamped with personal attacks, “news of the day” coming from political parties, scandals, mutual allegations, everyday ping-pong between several political groups.

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