It is understandable if someone dos what causes her pleasure. Nevertheless, our pleasures and gratifications, on a shorter or longer term, might threaten our existence. This analysis tries to examine this conflict from many angles.

After the several decade long activism of US neoconservatives, approaching issues as security control problems became a standard element in politics. By reinterpreting the concept of security, security control has spread into areas, where problems cannot be solved by this approach. Its most severe symptom was the 2003 invasion in Iraq and the launch of the ‘war on terror’. These clearly show the threat of uncontrolled security control and the business and political interests behind.

In 2012, Poland and Ukraine host the final of the European Football Championship. There are serious political and business fights behind. We can enjoy a semiperipheral championship in Europe, where geopolitics and business has priority over the game, where Western stereotypes on the East are shown fully, where the purchasing power of the middle class wins over football fans, where domestic political elites use the event to increase their legitimacy and oppress their opposition.