Navigating Liberia's Political Crossroads: Weah and Boakai Head to Second Round Showdown
Nestled on the west coast of Africa, Liberia, a nation with a tumultuous history marked by a devastating 14-year civil war that concluded...
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Célia Beckmann
Dec 1, 2023
Liberals for Åland win back voter’s trust
Åland Is a demilitarized and mostly autonomously operating Finnish region, having been granted autonomy by a 1920 League of Nations...
Jule Frank & Philipp Iger
Nov 30, 2023
State Parliament Elections: The Hesse and Bavaria Report
On October 8 2023, new state parliaments were elected in the German federal states (Bundesländer) of Bavaria and Hesse, which are among...
Moira Zobel
Nov 21, 2023
Beyond Textbooks: A Call for an Interactive Approach to Education
It is a grey day and it’s quiet. Nobody talks as we walk across the grounds of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site; you only hear...
Sarah Hourquet & Jessica Giovanella
Nov 12, 2023
Autonoma’s protest at UCM in response to UM’s inaction about the Israel-Palestine conflict
On Wednesday 1st of November 2023, three weeks after the re-eruption of hostilities in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and followed by...
Amira Hamadeh
Nov 6, 2023
A week of Tragedy and Political Unrest: “This must stop”
This 44th week has been marked by a series of tragic events that have captured international attention. The tense geopolitical landscape...
Ninetin Lu
Oct 30, 2023
Türkiye at 100: A Janus country
For the past month, the streets and skies of Istanbul have been coloured with a sea of red and white flags flapping alongside portraits...
Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
Oct 28, 2023
Luxembourg’s 2023 elections: Bye Bettel, hello “Neie Luc”?
What do you know about Luxembourg, more particularly, its politics? Probably not much more than I would know about Maltese or Slovenian...
Ana Navarro Bullo
Oct 25, 2023
A call to consciousness
One could keep on questioning what is enough in maximising efforts to stop the hundreds of daily deaths Gaza is condemned to attest every...
Jonathan Wijayaratne
Oct 20, 2023
As if we were back in 2015
It was a weird Saturday. On this 14 October 2023, France woke up under ‘alerte attentat’ (attack alert), the highest level of Vigipirate,...
Sofia Van Trooijen
Jun 12, 2023
Harmonising the Urgency of Climate Change
With summer around the corner, as we reach the middle of June, temperatures have already reached as high as 30 degrees Celsius. During my...
Laura Osterrieth
Jun 1, 2023
(In)justice was served: a case on Sanda Dia
Sanda Dia was a 20-years-old Belgian student, who was studying civil engineering at the prestigious University of Leuven. Coming from a...
Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
May 31, 2023
Lützerath: Post Mortem
If you have followed the news in January and are somewhat interested in climate justice, you will definitely have come across reports...
Alodia Heijmans
May 29, 2023
Eesti-residency: The New Digital Nation with Edward Lucas
A small innovation of technology and a revolution on the global market, the system of Estonian e-Residency, also called...
Esther Neville
May 25, 2023
A forgotten crisis: Human Rights Violations in Western Sahara
Throughout history, borders have perpetually changed, relocated and alternated depending on which state was in power. A location may...
Jane Hilgert
May 25, 2023
"Papers, please."
There is a heart beat. Good , strong, steady. A chest rises as air fills the lungs. Blood is being pumped through the veins. And not only...
Leen Mahayni
May 25, 2023
Lebanon, Caught in the Middle
Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, was once dubbed the "Paris of the Middle East" and "Middle Eastern Switzerland". From a financial...
Emre Küpcük
May 25, 2023
Putting a Stop to Ethnic Cleansing in a growingly realist world: The Rohingya and the ICC
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been examining the ongoing situation concerning the livelihoods of Rohingya people in Burma,...
Louise Chanut & Maya Müller-Perron
May 25, 2023
Building Walls or Breaking Barriers: The EU's Struggle with Migration Control
Two positions on the EU´s migration crisis: A few days ago, on the 28th of March 2023, the committee on budgets of the European...
Anthi Likitsakos
May 25, 2023
Is Force-feeding Torture?
When we think of torture, we might think of war criminals, communist states, and violent and gruesome practices. However, some types of...
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