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Calais five years on: Covid, Brexit and hostile policies
Guest article by Carla Laudien, Fundraising and Events Executive at Maastricht Goes to Calais At the beginning of the last academic year,...
Guest Writer
Aug 2, 2021


Divest Our Pensions
Guest article by Sarah Thin, PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law and former member of Fossil Free Maastricht Do you know where your...
Guest Writer
Jun 19, 2021


Who put the ‘unequal’ in ‘renewable’?
Renewable energy is no longer a pie in the sky. The past decades have brought about a societal awakening and the realisation that the...
Peter Pelzer
May 12, 2021


A war fought in the dark
With a long history and various players, Ethiopian politics is to most people an unknown. For many university students, it is not a...
Valentina Couceiro & Brendan Hogan
May 8, 2021


The Eastern Mediterranean Dispute and the Future of NATO as a Security Alliance
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which completed 70 years in 2019, has come a long way from its early vision of providing...
Parthabi Kanungo
May 6, 2021


‘Forced loneliness’: new challenges for the WHO Mental Health Plan in light of the pandemic
‘Imagine yourself closed for months in a cage. You can only communicate with others through the cage’s bars and you are not able to free...
Teresa Costa & Carmen Critelli
May 3, 2021


Pan-European, pragmatic, and progressive – Volt Maastricht
A while ago I had the privilege to meet with Konrad von Klitzing (City Lead Volt Maastricht). He shared with me his views on politics, wh...
Marence Jurgens
Apr 28, 2021


The Backbone of the United Students of Maastricht: In Dialogue with the Party’s Founder.
As Maastricht University boasts a reputation as the most international university in the Netherlands, it is interesting to note that...
Paula Cepeda Gallo
Apr 13, 2021


Getting Away with Murder: Entitlement and Accountability in Turkish Femicide
The decade has seen a massive rise in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Femicide in Turkey.Between 2008 and 2019, at least 3,185 women...
Ela Jade Unal
Apr 9, 2021


DOPE: Large, Pragmatic and Dutch
Maastricht's biggest student party demands the best possible education, even in Covid times. When Rozemarijn Kahle (second year student...
Jan Haverman
Mar 28, 2021


Arabia’s Temple of Dreams and the World’s Horrifying Nightmares.
“Hey, you, the unfair tyrants… You the lovers of the darkness… You the enemies of life… You’ve made fun of innocent people’s wounds, and...
Guest Writer
Mar 13, 2021


The Delicacy of Quoting The N-Word
The n-word is the kind of language that you would never imagine that you can hear in a liberal bubble like University College Maastricht...
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Feb 28, 2021


NovUM: New and Unprecedented?
New, fresh, novel, unusual, and unprecedented; that is what Novum means in Latin. Would the party NovUM at UM represent the same values?...
Valentina Couceiro
Feb 17, 2021


Sexual Feminism; The Nuances of Policing Feminism, But Not Policing Women
The term feminism is as fluid as its goals have been through the years. Right now, post-voting rights, we are in a period called the...
Roxane Kroon
Jan 22, 2021


Engaging in Incomplete Discourse Will Further Marginalise Trans Youth
Responding to “JK Rowling Might Actually Have A Point On Trans Youth” - Cam Nghiem. By Margaux Zandona and Jay Johns. [Content Notice:...
Guest Writer
Jan 12, 2021


Football Hooliganism & Identity Hijack; Ajax’s Jewish Persona
The vast majority of sport club fan bases have a formed identity and culture which permits them to differentiate themselves from others,...
Ethan Bergman
Jan 9, 2021


Farewell, 2020
It is a consensus that 2020 was quite a year - a year of chaos, of crisis, and of desperation. A person with a sane mind would not want...
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Dec 31, 2020


Ezhel: How to Rap the Turkish Reality
Same as in every December, we have received our report cards from Spotify to see our most listened to artists, songs, genres, and...
Alara Ersoy
Dec 28, 2020


CoViD-19's New Coat?
Who would have thought that cute animals, such as minks, would make 2020 even worse?How do they impact our health and businesses? Whilst...
Ethan Bergman
Dec 20, 2020


Reconciling with America’s strangeness
The United States through the eyes of Louis Theroux ‘I really think you’re going to enjoy this experience. We are a good group of...
Jan Haverman
Dec 5, 2020
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