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  The Christmas and New Year holidays are approaching, a time for gathering and celebration. Christmas is traditionally considered a more intimate, family holiday, mostly spent at home among the closest kin. In contrast, the New Year holidays are often an opportunity for broader social gatherings, travel, and celebrations outside the home. Despite the desire for a relaxed celebration, this period brings a strong social pressure regarding appearance—the choice of the perfect outfit and a special style of dressing, which includes decorating oneself and our surroundings. Festive Styles and Personal Freedom The choice of a festive style should be our personal freedom. Nevertheless, current fashionable pieces and "festive hits" are already displayed in all clothing stores. When choosing, however, we must not ignore a critical factor: consistency with the weather. December, and especially January in our regions, is a month of low winter temperatures, often dropping below  0°C. When...

  Timeline and Scope of the Conflict As of November 2025, Ukraine, which shares a long border with the European Union (EU), has been engaged in a full-scale war that has been going on for over three and a half years. On February 24, 2022, a large-scale invasion by Russian military forces began. Soon, in early 2026, it will have been almost four years of continuous military conflict. The current scale and intensity of the conflict place this conflict at the heart of the European security architecture. At over three years old, the war is approaching the length of some of the key European fronts in past global conflicts and is showing signs of potentially escalating from a regional to a broader global security problem.   Military and peace aspects According to data from the end of 2025, approximately 18-20% of the former Ukrainian territory is expected to be under Russian military occupation. Despite numerous diplomatic initiatives and talks that have taken place in recent years,...

  The European Union (EU) faced an exceptional migration wave in 2015, when more than one million arrivals were registered. The following year, 2016, this number dropped drastically to less than 400,000. The downward trend continued, with the number of migrants falling below 200,000 the following year and hovering below 100,000 until 2023. Changing trends and current situation In 2023, the number of migrants again exceeded 200,000, before starting to decline again in the current year, 2025. Nevertheless, more than 100,000 migrants crossed the EU borders in this unfinished year.  Faced with the imminent outbreak of war in Ukraine caused by the Russian military incursion and increasing financial and economic pressures, the EU is also struggling with the ever-present pressure of migration. For many, the European Union remains a promised destination. This year, more than 12,000 people have entered the EU illegally, significantly fewer than in some previous years. Long-term impacts...

  Several times throughout the development period of man from early childhood to adulthood, non-violent behavior was at least sometimes pointed out. In any case, aggression should at least be corrected. This is how we should create a future peaceful, empathetic modern social and social adult. The violent primary or instinctive behavior of a person, who is very quickly in conflict with other people for the goods of life and even for power over others, should thus lead, through the historical development of a person more similar to primates or a solitary human being, who had difficulty creating a wider society, to a modern peaceful social person. At least this is how the modern educational and training model of separating a person from a primate or a human being should proceed.  Of course, in contrast to this model, the old model of at least a defensive strategy of education has reappeared. Namely, people find it difficult to live in peace with other people or groups of people. ...

  The European space is also supposed to be a space of support for monogamous family unity. A monogamous community is defined as a family community of two partners. Initially, marriage was also defined as a monogamous community of two, that is, a husband and a wife. Only recently have we also known about marriage or a community of two same-sex partners. In fact, monogamy is legalized, at least in Slovenia. In Article 188 of the Criminal Code, you can find the criminal offense of bigamy, which is defined as follows: "1. Whoever enters into a new marriage, even though he is already married, shall be punished with a fine or imprisonment for up to one year. 2. The same punishment shall also be imposed on whoever enters into a marriage with a person whom he knows to be married. 3. If the previous marriage has ended or has been annulled, prosecution shall not commence, but if it has commenced, it shall be suspended." /End of quote from the Criminal Code, which defines criminal offe...

  Our highly cultured society also likes to boast about social support for the family. The family is supposed to be the foundation of our society. We also freely create a family and it is based on love, mutual respect and a shared household or income and expenses. However, in our society, as always, we also have paradoxes and/or contradictions between theory and practice. In the theoretical part of regulating mutual relations, including family relations, it is written that the wife or husband of a civil servant or civil servant cannot be employed in a public service. Some even describe this as nepotism or the creation of a clan of a family that would like to take over all key social functions and turn them into family functions. In the practical part of our society or everyday life, unregistered extended family members often appear in a family that is supposed to be based on monogamy between two loving partners, who are essentially lovers and mistresses. However, they are also a vi...

  A heated debate has once again opened about the costs of our defense, as the image of the European Union (EU) as a war zone is slowly becoming clearer. Incidents of drones that "accidentally" fly into EU and/or NATO territory, as well as "errant" missiles, are turning from incidents or mistakes into a clear threat of military aggression. For several years now, the EU has actually been faced more with the threat of war or the state of war of other countries and of course also with requests for alliance and/or humanitarian aid or even military aid. The EU and/or NATO have also been faced with waves of migrants from so-called dangerous war zones outside their territory. Thus, the opinion has somehow become established that the EU is actually being faced with or is being exhausted by drawing financial resources or financial aid from other countries that cannot ensure peacetime conditions on their own. And of course, we have been faced with general comments that most E...

In this more than half-year period of 2025, we like to boast about a successful economy. We forgot about the deaths of the Covid-19 epidemic, which brought freed jobs and reduced unemployment. This year is also marked by an increased mortality rate of soldiers deployed to Ukraine. When assessing economic success, we also forget that we have fallen into an era of inflation. In 2025, we also like to boast about a growing GDP (gross domestic product per capita), which somehow also coincides with the observed inflation. We could console ourselves that we live better in terms of the employment rate and unemployment rate, if we do not take into account how many jobs this year's deaths free up. The employment rate has risen by 0.1 in the EU and European areas since the previous quarterly period. It is worse than the first quarter, as employment increased by 0.2% in this period. As an example, we can cite data on Slovenia in numbers. In any case, Slovenia still has a 3.2% unemployment rate...

  The world's human population has grown by more than 46 million this year. A little less, more precisely a little more than 41 million people, have died. The total population thus amounts to more than 8 billion and 243 million people this year. We can predict that planet Earth will soon become overpopulated in relation to the availability of terrestrial settlement space. We may also be surprised by the fact that the human population is growing in all war zones. The Yalta Agreements and the entered state borders according to world peace treaties, which are also entered on UN maps after the end of World War II, have again fallen into the military imperial games of conquering foreign territories and reducing or diminishing the population. Population of the nearby war zone Ukraine-Russia. Russia, with its almost 144 million population, has fallen into a negative 0.57% annual decline in its population. It also has a net migrant population of -251,822, as its almost three-year war with ...

  This year, 2025, we mark 80 years since the end of Nazism and Fascism on European soil and we wonder whether a third world war will break out. Nazism and Fascism, which rose partly at the expense of the economic crisis, brought ruins, devastation and mass graves of soldiers who died in battles and also civilians in concentration camps or civilians killed in other ways during the war and post-war settlements to the European continent by 1945. In the Second World War, fundamental human rights were trampled again, which re-emerged with the establishment of the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Thus, 80 years have passed, which should also be said a big NO to rhetoric or diplomacy of arms and the attempt to dominate one nation over another, or to some kind of new and/or old phenomenon of enslaving inferior and/or smaller nations. After World War II, the superpowers or great nations promised the European people respect f...

  Perception of wealth and poverty In everyday life, we often had three categories in society in terms of wealth, namely the rich, the middle class and the poor. Of course, the perception or definition of all three classes is very different. We can often define that the middle class is actually sliding into the poor with social policy, because they are not actually entitled to social contributions and are actually the payers of all bills and they also have to provide themselves with accommodation or a home. It also appears that the so-called rich class of society with their perception of their position in society and of course also their lifestyle. The rich lifestyle is supposed to be free from at least any worries about the daily costs of living. The rich are even supposed to enjoy above-standard services and amenities. However, it is slowly emerging that the rich are not just enjoyers of everyday life without any pressure to survive. Stories of starting from nothing or poverty ar...

According to the latest data, in May 2025, 928,000 foreign citizens or migrants were waiting for their first asylum assistance in the European Union (EU). In the EU, 4.4 million people are already living under international protection. The largest number of people with international protection is said to live in Germany and Poland, although the largest number of foreigners per capita is settled in the Czech Republic. The largest number of applications for international protection was received in Spain, Italy and France in May 2025. Thus, Germany is slowly losing its attractiveness for those seeking international protection or asylum. The inhabitants of Syria have long been among the most numerous asylum seekers. But now they have fallen to fourth place. After the fall of the Assad regime and/or the fall of the caliphate, 1.5 million people were expected to return to Syria, but 80% of migrants from Syria do not want to return to their homeland. This year, the first place in terms of the...

It often happens to us that we actually do not know how to live successfully or with quality. Most likely, all the blame for such an unsuccessful life can simply be found in our lack of life skills or in the gap between the practice and theory of life and the appropriate perception of our social environment. The saying: "Be diligent, honest and hardworking" does not necessarily bring you a successful life through the measure of well-being. It is also not necessary that this saying will bring you a peaceful sleep or a peaceful soul. Many people who have adhered to this saying have ended up among the victims and losers, because as such calm and hardworking people, they have simply become victims of bullies and criminals. They may have simply realized that they are simply incapable of swimming in the river of life with all the rocks of destruction, enslavement, exploitation and humiliation, because they are not able to cope and win. We used to call this the fight for life and th...

Most citizens of the entire world's human population know the costs of legal residence in a country. The more a country offers its citizens, and often also foreigners, the higher the contributions and taxes, of course, as a logical consequence. Every country requires registration of permanent residence, which also means that you must have a place to live. State authorities also require personal documents, which are also payable. I must not forget all the taxes. From the store, where hardworking citizens buy, and some steal. Also, all employed citizens pay all the benefits, from social contributions, to health and also education contributions, because then we have "free" social, health services and of course, if you meet the conditions, more than ten years of education "free", or free of charge. The state also offers its citizens long-term care and, of course, a protection supplement in addition to pensions. And of course, the state also provides certain socially...

Humans are inherently social beings and of course social creatures with an increasingly common common bowl from which one must eat wisely, or as much as possible. Namely, individuals who are skilled at, as we call it, scooping from the common bowl with a full spoon and criticizing the spoons of others in the common bowl thrive in society. How such competition and greed developed in our modern culture is a matter of long debate. Humanity has had its cultural ups and downs throughout human history. The privileges given or acquired and the degradation of humans, up to the dehumanization of slaves and the search for foundations or ideologies for such treatment of fellow humans, are also very well known. For a long time, some sociologists have also noted that in a particular society, when slavery was abolished, the lowest unpaid or poorly paid jobs or the previous slave jobs of other inferiors were simply transferred to the female part of society. Other principles of domination and privileg...

More than 8.2 billion humanity, which is increasing by more than 50%, or more than 50% more births than deaths in 2025, as a potential human workforce, is also facing accelerated robotization, which means replacing human labor with robotic labor. Thus, the paradox of the existence and meaning of humanity and their outlined technological path is slowly emerging. The technological idea that humans will no longer perform heavy physical work is tempting or attractive. However, this idea is less attractive when we consider the consequence, such as increased unemployment among the low-educated in the labor market. The consequences of increased unemployment can also be expected among the highly educated with the introduction of artificial intelligence, which will replace teachers, doctors, pilots, translators, etc. The middle-educated working class will also be affected, as they should already be familiar with robot police officers, drone soldiers, traders, robot secretaries and more. The adv...

 We are increasingly hearing that the final product of a violent act was actually caused by a previous violent act or fraud or rhetorical violence with defamation or long-term mobbing, bullying, etc. Simply put, in such cases, it is a matter of settling scores between persons or groups without the courts and police. The former victim, now the perpetrator of the crime, is simply fed up and has taken the right to settle the injustices committed into his own hands. In the face of such events, even with the tragic end of a life taken, we can ask ourselves whether a tragic outcome of the conflict or negative social interaction with a tragic end was really necessary. We build our society on good interpersonal relationships, empathy for each other, mutual respect for human rights. We have private and social property secured and protected. In society, we are supposed to respect each other's physical integrity, etc. In addition, we instill in children from a young age family and social valu...

People can never get used to the simple rules of interpersonal relationships, whether in the family, neighborhood, work or wider environment, even though the rules are quite simple. Maybe in our society we still have sexist promoters and attempts at domination without a legal basis or, simply put, we have people in society who operate outside the law or want to change it to their advantage. The rules are quite clear and often, with regard to the master of the house, they simply refer to property rights. The owner of the house is quite simply also the master of the house or a person authorized by the owner of the house, regardless of gender, citizenship, race and education, etc. The owner and master of the house simply decides about his house or, in other words, disposes of his real estate, uses it or not and has all the rights to his real estate or house, as long as he does not endanger others with his actions. This is called the fundamental right of property protected by the Constitut...

  All social media posts will be used by Meta to train artificial intelligence; this is what Meta announced this year. Al will also be trained based on our social media posts. In essence, it is an attempt to create artificial intelligence based on human intellect. Artificial intelligence is supposed to be in the future and is already appearing in the present, namely more than just a machine into which our or the owner's instructions are entered into their memory cells, which are loaded into the memory units of the so-called robots. The first robots that humanity began to make were also very similar to machines in terms of their external appearance. In recent times, robots are becoming similar to humans or animals. The appearance of a robot or android and the attempt to develop android or robotic independent thinking are increasingly coinciding. Thus, it is a kind of attempt to merge the android (machine) with the humanoid (human). Which brain functions and how logical operations wi...

The world has become small with the introduction of online global services. The Internet has brought people closer together and simplified our lives with a range of services from online banking, online stores and all other services. However, the Internet has also enabled online fraud or remote fraud. The police classify these online frauds as investment frauds, which last year in 2024 took away 19.5 million euros from savers in Slovenia alone. This information also shows that people are extremely trusting on the Internet and by phone. Banks are again informing about the possibility of online banking fraud, as online fake bank fraudsters have appeared, requesting data and installation of individual applications, such as crypto exchanges KuCoin, Binance, Revolut, Bitstamp, Mercuryo... . So we will not know again or we will no longer trust official crypto exchanges or we will simply no longer save in cryptocurrencies. These cryptocurrency wallets with similar or identical names can be fou...