Great article by Jakub Šimek:
My comment:
Agreed... And sadly, most of Europe is declining world, especially central Europe.
My last two visits of Germany I was constantly asking "wtf is happening here?". Failing infrastructure, trains run late, dirty toilets, people feel annoyed and in "not my problem" mode. In Germany, which was punktlich, high quality, clean...
I don't even talk about cz/sk. Healthcare is way past clinical death, politicians are riding some kind of powertrip car and entrepreneurs are leaving. And, what is worst, people believe that politicians will fix this. No they won't. State destroys wealth, entrepreneurs create it.
If you understand this, you see that the country is dying, just most people did not notice it yet.