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Mar 20, 2018
MaasX Student Debate: An Analysis (Part Two)
4th Topic- The Housing Quota System Statement: The municipality should abolish the system of quotas on student houses per street. Again,...
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Mar 19, 2018
PvdA Student Candidates: “We want to go back to the local feeling, to the core of Maastricht, one th
The running Social-Democratic party argues that nuisance and student housing, drug violence and drug tourism should not be framed as...
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Mar 18, 2018
MaasX Student Debate: An Analysis (Part One)
Introduction- The Debate’s Structure The Franz Palm Lecture Hall is packed. 400 students, or even more, have come to the Student Debate...
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Mar 17, 2018
2018 Russian Presidential Elections: The Last Season of Putin’s Era?
Sunday 18th March presidential elections will be held in the Russian Federation. Ever since 2000, (2008-2012 as prime minister), Vladimir...
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Mar 16, 2018
Brexit: Where We Are At
The past week has been quite eventful regarding the ongoing Brexit negotiations. The EU presented the first draft of, what is to be, the...
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Mar 13, 2018
M:OED #4 Candidate: “You have to be quite bold to bring about change”.
Martin van Rooij, last year FASoS European Studies, fourth on the M:OED list for the municipal elections details the newborn party’s...
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Mar 5, 2018
Let’s Talk about Yemen.
Every day we hear the news about atrocities happening in Syria or Afghanistan and the death toll for which this situation is responsible....
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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 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 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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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 3, 2018
North Korea Beyond the Border
The Case On November 13, a dramatic video – filmed from the surveillance closed-circuit cameras – captured a North Korean soldier racing...
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