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Mar 4, 2018
2018 Italian Elections: An Overview (Part Two)
Partito Democratico (Democratic Party) Partito Democratico is the party that has run the last two governments with a fleeting chariot. In...
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Mar 3, 2018
2018 Italian Elections: An Overview (Part One)
The Sunday’s vote: possible post-election scenarios On Sunday the 4th of March, Italian people are called to the polls for the...
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Mar 2, 2018
The 2018 Winter Olympics: Shots Fired
Historically, the Olympic Games have mirrored political ambience. It is no surprise that the 2018 Winter Olympic Games have shown...
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Feb 27, 2018
The 2018 Oscars: Movies’ Suggestions and Reviews
Are this year’s Oscars movies worth the hype? As the night of the Oscars quickly draws closer, everyone seems to have become a movie...
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Feb 24, 2018
VVD Maastricht Student Candidates: Interview with Nicky Beckers (#5) and Guiseppe Noteborn (#6)
On the 17th of February 2018, Giovanni Stanga and Gaia Lisi, respectively the Head and the Co-Head of the UNSA Journal Committee, had the...
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Feb 23, 2018
2018 Munich Security Conference: ‘To the Brim and Back?’
The world has moved away from the relative order of American hegemony and has become more unstable, more multi-polar and eroded along...
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Feb 23, 2018
The Eternal Syrian War
The Syrian Conflict: Overview of Current Actors and Patterns In 2011, a group of teenagers in Southern Syria wrote on a wall some...
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Feb 22, 2018
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel’s PM on the Brink of the Abyss
Israel. Rarely has there been a single word that conjures up such a divisive opinion. And it continues to impress in that regard. Current...
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Feb 21, 2018
Welcome Mr. Ramaphosa
On February 15, 2018, less than 24hrs after Mr Jacob Zuma stepped down, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in as the fifth President of...
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Feb 20, 2018
Goodbye and Good Riddance: Jacob Zuma’s Resignation
A change of regime in Southern Africa is the flavour of the moment. Just a few months ago Robert Mugabe, at the time the world’s oldest...
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Feb 17, 2018
Vietnam Experience: Part II
I still remember the adventures of my first day of work. Coming back to school from lunch break, I was a bit sleepy and completely lost...
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Feb 15, 2018
Vietnam Experience: Part I
My volunteering experience with the Centre for Development Sustainable Studies (CSDS) in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, has undoubtedly...
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Feb 12, 2018
Food in Europe: Green, Orange or Red Light?
We all know the moment when someone asks us at the end of the year whether we have New Year’s resolutions or not. By now, you probably...
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Feb 9, 2018
Salam Neighbor: Documentary’s Review
How is it like to build a new life from scratch, after you lost everything you worked for? How does it feel to be trapped in a perennial...
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Jan 30, 2018
Waithood: The Periphery and Marginality of the Youth in Today’s World
The lecture is named after the Polish writer and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski. Its 100th edition was held by Professor Alcinda Honwana,...
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Jan 29, 2018
Why You Should Vote on March 21st: Part Two
Students are not second-class citizens Yet, for Janna and Geke, in three years you can expect to integrate; “I think there is a lot of...
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Jan 28, 2018
Why You Should Vote on the 21st of March: Part One
Geke Hasperhoven (on the left) is 8th on the GroenLinks list and Janna Willems (on the right) is 15th. Geke studies at FHML and Janna at...
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Jan 27, 2018
Maastricht: A Divided and Transient City for Students?
On Monday 22nd January, MaasX organised an open evening named “Maastricht- What’s up Democracy?” for members of the Maastricht community...
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Jan 24, 2018
A Right to Bother
The last few months have seen the emergence of the #MeToo campaign and numerous sexual assault scandals which have ruined reputations and...
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Jan 23, 2018
The worrying issue of Breast Ironing
You probably just read the title of this article and thought it is a bizarre headline. What is this article all about? For whatever...
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