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Konverzačné témy v minulosti diskutované v tomto jazykovom kurze:

  • Drowning in money
  • Super-rich get richer
  • Racism, ratings and reality TV
  • New citizens, good citizens
  • The Future of Zoos
  • NASA gladly loses a spacecraft
  • The future of design?
  • Afghan airlines
  • Cologne and antiseptic: Russia’s killer drink
  • The night-walkers of Uganda
  • We need a total ban on ivory sales
  • America’s road romance dies
  • Life throught a lens
  • Tigers and gorilla for sale online
  • Giving power to the people
  • Firms tag workers to improve efficiency
  • Online fraudster
  • Back from the dead
  • Gun lobby fires shot for ‘free speech‘
  • Terror in South Africa drives film success
  • Somalia
  • No strawberries and cream for fruit pickers
  • Return to Algeria
  • Rebirth of the Reich land
  • Women MPs bullied and abused in Commons
  • From Mali to Madrid
  • The ‘Dirty War‘
  • Send Julia Roberts, not tanks
  • Koreans succeed in cloning human embryos
  • Battle of colas
  • World’s richest man tries to hold back ‘gathering tempest’ with $100m gift
  • Parliament brings end to 700 years of hunting
  • Superjet launches sky wars
  • A big clean-up
  • Global warming threatens to kill off a million species
  • From 'civilisation' to 'WMD' words are weapons
  • Radical plans for waste could start a big clean-up
  • Young Saudis
  • Words are weapons
  • A woman's talent is to listen, says the Vatican.
  • $300m search for WMD draws a blank
  • Offshore wind farms to power one in six households in Britain
  • Savouring the whale
  • Axel of Evil
  • Angry Spain ousts ruling party
  • Safety fears over Europe's busy skies
  • Doctor who identified SARS becomes its victim
  • Rwanda
  • Police accused of Rio massacre
  • Portuguese nurse who ran abortion clinic jailed
  • Where men are men .... and women don’t know the recipe for equality
  • Bridge cannot span the divide
  • Health crisis looms as life expectancy soars
  • Aid agencies warn of Iraq pullout
  • America’s crude tactics for Iraq war
  • Christmas is coming - all the way from China
  • France to ban pupils’ religious dress
  • Fur flies as Christmas sales take off - Mark Townsend
  • Explosion in the suburbs
  • A chance to save millions of lives by freeing up drug patents
  • ‘Old’ Europe reuniting East with West
  • Working the land to feed the people
  • Spare a tear for Argentina
  • Demand for beef speeds up destruction of Amazon forest
  • Afghanistan’s deadly crop flourishes again
  • Warnings Not Enough for Gaza Families
  • Somalia’s Pirates Flourish in a Lawless Nation
  • The Safety Gap
  • Facing a Financial Crisis, European Nations Put Self-Interest First
  • Israel, After 43 Years, Is Ready for Beatlemania
  • Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early
  • For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology
  • Despite Tobacco’s Perils, Kremlin Yields to Smokers
  • Now Europeans Are Slower to Spend, and It Shows
  • Storm Damage Is Extensive and Millions Lose Power
  • Camping? Yes. Roughing It? Not Quite.
  • Tapes Offer New Clues to a Master of Mystery
  • What Would Hippocrates Do?
  • Diving Into a New World
  • Arab TV Tests Societies’ Limits With Depictions of Sex and Equality
  • The $10 Million Light Bulb
  • For a Fee, a Thai Temple Offers a Head Start on Rebirth
  • Fast Food Hits Mediterranean a Diet Succumbs
  • Do they really think the earth is flat?
  • Are Bad Times Healthy?
  • An Elite Pastime That Became a Passion of the Masses
  • In ‘Sweetie’ and ‘Dear,’ a Hurt for the Elderly
  • Roma and ethnic minorities in Slovakia
  • Your Initials May Influence Your Job
  • A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt
  • Mexico Drug War, Sorting Good Guys From Bad
  • An Enclave of Brazilians Is Testing Insular Japan
  • The Possibilities in Hypnosis, Where the Patient Has the Power
  • Reality television
  • In the Shadow of a Long Past, Patiently Awaiting the Future
  • Tibetan Exiles Meet on Strategy
  • Rare Treatment Is Reported to Cure AIDS Patient
  • Catholic Priest Faces Excommunication
  • Shuttle Departs With Gear for Space Station
  • A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea

Podklad k téme v jazykovom kurze konverzácie C1:

Facing a Financial Crisis, European Nations Put Self- Interest First
Half a century ago, the European Union was born on the ideal of close co-operation between countries torn by war. Since the formal adoption of a common currency, the euro, European leaders have pledged tight coordination of financial policies and promoted new steps toward political integration as well.

Speaking on Saturday of how to manage the financial storm, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, declared, “What is of the essence is that Europe should exist and respond with one voice.” But over the past week as the crisis has radiated around the globe, some of the 27 nations that make up the European Union have broken ranks, opting in ugly disarray for self-interested policies to protect their own citizens and banks first.

At a time when the scale of events would seem to call for concerted action, critics say, the stock and credit market upheavals have elicited raw emotions and reflexive, unilateral actions. After a week of squabbling and rushed meetings, finance ministers agreed Tuesday to take a few modest steps to shore up markets. But they did little to dispel growing doubts that the European Union could grapple collectively with a common crisis.

“This is unprecedented,” said Simon Tilford, chief economist of the Center for European Reform, a research organisation in London. “It has exposed the limits of European integration and co-ordination when presented with a crisis of this magnitude.” Defenders of the European Union were quick to point out that its system, which lacks a central finance ministry comparable to the Treasury Department in the United States, was not designed for this kind of crisis. And quietly, they point out that the Treasury Department did not prevent the United States from creating the mortgage mess; nor did Congress, speaking a single language on behalf of a single nation, have such an easy time finding consensus on a response.

“Political will is always in short supply when there’s no risk,” said Jan Techau, director of the Europe program at the German Council on Foreign Relations, who said he was often sceptical of the European Union, but understanding of its present struggles. “You can either say, see how long it took them, look at how impotent they are, or you can say, when push comes to shove, they can really act. You can look at it positively or negatively.”

The meeting of member countries’ finance ministers on Tuesday illustrated the virtues and the flaws of the union. The ministers managed to more than double the minimum level of guarantees for bank deposits in member countries, to around $67,500, but that was less than half what some member states had asked for. “They haven’t drawn the line in the sand yet,” said Irwin Collier, professor of economics at the Free University in Berlin. He added: “They established a minimum, and you can hear the sound of one hand clapping for that measure. It’s very modest.”

Even before a weekend emergency meeting in Paris of the union’s four biggest economies — Germany, France, Italy and Britain — German officials had rejected a proposal floated by the French for a common European bailout fund along the lines of the United States plan devised by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. In Berlin, where the financial crisis has emboldened criticism of the no-holds-barred, Anglo-Saxon capitalist model, officials argued that Germany, traditionally the European Union’s largest financial contributor, should not pay for a problem that began elsewhere.

In Brussels, the atmosphere is fraught over the national disarray on the financial crisis, but also with a sense that the criticism is unfair. Without a unionwide banking regulatory system or fiscal policy, any reaction to the crisis was inevitably going to be national in character.

“I believe events have shown that no country is immune from this crisis,” said José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, on Tuesday. “I hope that persuades the most skeptical people of the benefits of joint E.U. action."

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