International Current Affairs

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As a participant of the Crossing Borders program I had the chance to attend the course of International Current Affairs (ICA) which is lead by Thomas Boserup. We usually discuss recent affairs of the world, sometimes watching different types of movies (on Afghanistan, etc.), or just browsing the ICG-report. We had two guests recently: Line Wolf Nielsen and Henrik Lerche. One week ago we had a trip to Copenhagen to visit the Ministry of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs and the Nordic Council of Ministers. After these official meeting we were allowed to enter the home of Thomas. It is a nice place near the Forum square, with his two lovely children and his friendly wife. We were blessed with a delicious Chili Con Carne, some red wein and a relaxing discussion.

On our last lesson we watched a video about a school-project with the purpose of showing the afghani Youth/children how to participate in the elections, and how democratic elections are held. They were asked to run as candidates, after collecting a given amount of supporters. Five of them managed to start their campaign (not only males!). All candidates were funded by the organizers, with a simbolic amount of money. These children worked on own political programs, and they were able to hold rallies, give speeches, interviews. As for the money: some of them spent the money on ice cream, or biscuits. :) Is it surprising? I do not think so.

Believe it or not they had very serious programs as: get rid of the foreign troops, spend more money on security issues...

Anyway, it is a course worth attending! I am looking forward to more interesting topics!

Tak, Thomas!

by: Daniel Jadi (HUN)