Gordian knot, Gömböc, Hungarian ring or Rubik's cube?

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.