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If you believe in incarnations, you would swear that Freddie Mercury now resides in the body of Hamed Sinno, the charismatic and openly gay lead singer of the Lebanese indie band. The name of the seven-piece from Beirut translates literally from the Arabic to ‘An Overnight Project’

Denmark has become an authentic export machine for fictional television. After the success of 'The Killing', which was adapted into an American version, its producers created a drama about national politics which has won the hearts of European critics and a 2012 British international TV series award

Denmark has become an authentic export machine for fictional television. After the success of 'The Killing', which was adapted into an American version, its producers created a drama about national politics which has won the hearts of European critics and a 2012 British international TV series award

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What are the chances of young people getting involved in politics? Is it boring? Or interesting? Only those deal with it who are really passionate about politics? Or should we all be interested because it is our responsibility? Questions like these were answered by our French and Belgian guests on the last day of Sziget.

We return right back to the starting point: what is politics? If it is what it is, why does not everyone take part in it? Why does not everyone have an opinion, take a stand, debate or have a say in public affairs?  Vincent, a PhD student at the University of economics of Budapest, says that the society was push to become apolitical. For example, he mentions the alienating techniques of the Kádár era to depoliticize the society: "don't care about politics, we will provide you what you need" . This depoliticization was accented with the false illusion of individualism promoted by capitalism and consumerism.  According to him, we manage to make the people, in particular the youngest, to believe that politics only consists on elections and the party system. Despite this he thinks that the Hungarian youths can be and will have to be repoliticized soon considering the upcoming crises.