Balanced equilibrium that is often what organisations, institutions and individuals strive for in life. It is not an easy task to achieve, as we can see when following the development within the EU regarding the handling of different exits, exiles, migrants and refugees. Today it seems more and more a kind of a chaotic order that reigns within the once so grand organisation that would offer solutions to all (?) of the problems of the member countries; through that, also to the problems of the organisation itself and finally also for the problems arising within Europe. Perhaps in the world, as we obviously live in a global world.  

The intentions were good, the possibilities to achieve positive goals - within politics, economy, social life and culture - were limitless; it was merely putting the intentions on paper, gather the good women and men of good intentions at a tasty meal: brunch, lunch or supper and get them to sign the papers. 

The possibility of reckoning; that one day the time comes when the good intentions were put to test, the signed papers would be scrutinesed with a magnifying glass looking for text details written with big and small letters, that rules and regulations signed would be analysed and found to be questionable, even unacceptable for some within the organisation wo had their own intentions and expectation not always in harmony with the texts on the papers, had not crossed anybody's mind. It seems today. 

Life has changed, but the documents cannot take this fact into consideration. Realities of life have also changed, but the organisaton of EU does not seem to be prepared to accept this fact of life. If reality does not agree with your written documents, change reality; seems to be the message and attitude of the bureaucrats of the organisation on clay legs. 

How the title connects to my above thoughts? 

Well, the Gordian knot was solved by a great Macedonian young leader, a great man, the first historic person with a global vision, who lived a long time ago. His name was Alexander. He did not only solve the Gordian knot; he also created an empire with a deliberation and mind set on the goal he intended to achieve. His achievements blow the mind. And leads to the question: is there any leader in the EU that might compare? In global thinking, solving problems or havingt goals? I find it hard to see that. 

The Hungarian ring (the creation of Mr. Rubik) and his well-known puzzle represent in my writing the problems that the present Hungarian government, and the leader, the PM of the country, Mr. Orbán meets amid of all the doings of the EU. He has actually the deliberation, the intention and vision to come to solutions that he, and his country, finds acceptable and suitable for themelves. He would like to extend these intentions to a global scale (well: at least within the EU), but he bumps into obstacles. Not everybody can see his intentions as good. It may be as it is: he is somewhat contradversial  today, with conservative ideas on different fields of society, but he certainly is a person of high integrity. He follows up his own statements and intentions with a precision that other politicians lack. When he than is found to have been right in debated questions, not many politicians are brave enough to prize him for his reightousness. That is a shame; one would think that the EU is an organisation that pays attention to all of the member states; with their deviant way of seeing things. 

Gömböc, the creation of Mr. Várkonyi and Mr. Domokos (proving a thesis of a Russian mathematician, Mr. Arnolds) is another Hungarian story. Gömböc is a monostatic body with a homogenic density. Get it? That body represents for me the Hungarian spirit. You role it, you bend it, you swing it, you drop it, you push it, you shove it; you pressit down: it will rise! 

That is a nice promise for survival - also in difficult times as we experience today. Migration, EU, grexit, brexit, closing  fances, sharp wires, angry migrants, failing integration, extremists, cold nights on the corn fields, repatriating migrants, influx of new migrants... whatever... 

One would expect of the EU to find an acceptable solution for most.They should study the ring, the puzzle, or Gömböc. 

The new order under the leadership of the Party Law and Order in Poland causes a headache in Brussels in 2016. Hungary serves for an analogue comparison basis when the press describes the situation that is developing in Poland on the political scene. A country of that size has of course much bigger importance than a tiny little land, such as Hungary. Even though one should have the same importance considering that the EU is a so called democratic institution with 28 member states with the same (?) importance and relevance. So it hs been stated.

Poland behaves now in away that is not sympathetic to many countries within the EU, and within Poland,  where many people protest on the streets against the new political situation; some new laws, such as the media law. That - and many other things - are compared to the liberal path that Hungary's leader, Victor Orbán has taken; particularly as Mr. Kaczynski has already stated (in 2011 after a lost election) that he wanted to see 'Budapest in Warsaw' . The parties of Mr. Orbán and Mr. Kaczynski have since won their respective elections, and the leaders have also met several times since the latest elections at the autumn of 2015 in Poland. One might take that during those meetings, notes have been compared...

The EU has now a difficult task; how to tread further. Hungary has gone through a baptism of fire for their naughty behaviour: not fully adjusting to the expectations of the EU. Poland is of course  a much larger country, than Hungary. Neverttheless, both countries are linked to the other EU-countries. Economically, politically and in many other ways. Poland probably has a greater importance on all of these areas and to upset the balance on those might have consequenses that the EU does not really want. What would Germany, the leading state within the EU, if Poland insists to continue to be unruly? Mr. Kaczynxki does not seem to be intimidated - just as Hungary continued to follow its chosen path a couple of years ago when the EU tried to frighten off Mr. Orbán from seeing through the government's plans for Hungary, so does Poland now. 

The internal policies of the above states are seen in the respective country just as such: internal matters. This has been the opinion of mr. Orbán in Hungary, when he pursued the policy of his government, and it seems to be the opinion in Polan, as stated by the PM, Ms. Beata Szydlo. Some opinion has been heared (e.g. from the Swedish representative in Brussels) to do something against Poland: suggesting the use of punishments. The question is: can punishments be productive? They are probably counter-productive instead. 

The EU has now started to investigate Poland: what is happening, what is acceptable, what is not and what to do with the unruly pupil? What if other countries follow in the path that Poland and Hungary have chosen?  How uneasy should the EU feel?  

So the next question is: if individualistic countries want to have the freedom to choose their own policies and apply those: at what extent can the EU adjust to those individualistic measures? Or is it too much to expect?

A lot to think about... 

... is getting complicated. For each day that goes by the situation gets more and more inpenetrable and diversified. Discussions have become heavy and serious as the gap in the reactions to migration, to the extremist iislamic attack on Paris two weeks ago and the question of free migration has deepened betwenn Western- and Central European countries.

Hungary most resolutely holds to the opinion that migration in the form carried out today is not something that Europa needs; migration in its present form is going to harm the European civilasation (whatever that may be), distroy the European culture (whatever that may be) and distroy Europe as we know it today. Behind Mr Orbán's reasoning we find the worry about the spread of extreme islamic ideas in Europe; meaning that with free and uncontrolled migration there is the threat of extremists entering the EU. Hungarians are somewhat taken aback by the naivity of Western Europeans still denying the probabilty of extremist forces finding their way into the EU by illegal migration.

In the West, one talks of demonising migrants who flee from exactly the same threat that Europe faces today; i.e. the terror caused by DAESH. That is a truth with modification: there are people who flee DAESH, but we witness now, that members of this dispicable organisation have joined the endless lemmel train of migrants. We have seen the result of it in Paris. Europe is closing its ranks as a result; threats are sensed in every corner: in metros, on airports at cultural and sport events. You name it. To exclude the probabilty of extremist entering the EU does indeed seem to be ludicrous.

There are several countries that agree with Mr. Orbán in this somewhat apocalyptic vision, but not all. In his speech on Hungarian television the other day he expressed his bewilderment about Western-European countries' reaction to migration, maintaining still a liberal, utopistic and naive opinion about free migration. Let them come, seems to be the message.

Central European countries, particularly V4-countries share the view of Hungary and support it. There are several Western countries that also show sympathy for the Hungarian view and actions on illegal migration. They have changed foot; they even build border protection device; such as at the Austrian border at Spielfeld, calling it „festen, technischen, kilometerlangen Sperren“ (fasta, tekniska, kilometerlånga avspärrningar). Slovenia, Croatia and other Balkan-countries are thinking about similar actions; several of the Balcan countries fail today to stand host for the great number of migrants flowing into Europe. Slovania and Croatia and also Western European countries (Austria, Germany) have begun to change their attitude towards free migration. Baveria in Germany has even expressed threats of leaving the German conglomeration, if migration to Germany would not be limited. It might be an empty threat, nonetheless, the idea has arosen.

In many ways, countries in Europe have expressed being in agreement with the Hungarian policy on free migration: it  must be controlled. Not many - if any - have though freed Hungary from the accusations of being nationalist, fascist and racist; the country was accused of when they built the external fences towards South-East in order to control migration. It is perhaps too much to expect of politicians, who have called Hungary names, to have the spine to admit that they were perhaps too harsh when judging Hungary. Particularly as Hungary acted according to the compelling responsibility acts and agreements with the EU they have signed regarding the protection ot external borders of the institution.

Since the start of migration we have seen riots, people exploded and being exploded, tragedies, deaths, protests, harder controls, migrant ghettoes, false documents, dubious identifications, arrests of potential and real terrorists, diverse police actions, migrants sleeping on the streets lacking accommodation - but there is still no saturation, At least, there is a great hesitation to admit that the limit is reached..It iseems to be difficult to see the consequenses of the mass migration ongoing in Europe today; to believe that Europe will not be changed in the spure of it is not only naive and inhhumane; it is downright irresponsible.

The problem is, as I see it, that the liberal migration rules have been created and signed by EU-members when the concept of migration had a completely different content,  a content that is not applicable any more. Yet, the invalid rules and their consequences are forced on people to see them as valid and applicable. On account of this obsolete view, those, who have adapted a newer understanding of the ongoing migration process are judged as xenophobic.  

This clash between the outdated and newer view has led to  loss of trust and increasing alianation between the EU and the Hungarian people. No wonder.

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