The Faculty Council of the law faculty is up for re-election between the 17th and 20th May. The Faculty Council has twelve members, six...

The elections for the FSE faculty council are taking place between the 17th and the 20th of May 2021. The FSE faculty (Faculty of Science...

The elections are coming up and FPN is not exempt from this process, with students and staff heading to the polls (from the comfort of...

The Council of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) is up for re-election between 17 and 20 May. The FHML Council has...

With a voter turnout of 23,120%, last year’s faculty elections seemed to go by unnoticed. This was not only the case for the Faculty of...

The University of Maastricht Student Council, a separate entity to the faculty-specific councils, is approaching re-election time. These...

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...

As Maastricht University boasts a reputation as the most international university in the Netherlands, it is interesting to note that...

Maastricht's biggest student party demands the best possible education, even in Covid times. When Rozemarijn Kahle (second year student...

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...

New, fresh, novel, unusual, and unprecedented; that is what Novum means in Latin. Would the party NovUM at UM represent the same values?...

The Maastricht Diplomat recently interviewed Friederike Leppert, on behalf of KAN (Klimaat Actie Netwerk or Climate Action Network)...

Moving to the Netherlands has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, but it surely has had its difficulties. A lot of...

Right now, as you are sipping your cup of tea, someone is out there in the bureaucratic wilderness representing you..

A New Voice in the Times of Rona Ezekiel Stevens – KAN Michael Keith – Upon meeting Ezekiel Stevens, a second-year physics student from...

As exams are nearly on our doorstep, the flow of students in the library has dramatically increased which is not a surprise to anyone who...

Mia Rose Penn Mental Health is a Bigger Issue in Maastricht Than You Might Think In the last few years, mental health problems have been...

What makes a good university? Is it the amount of informational knowledge it manages to shove into its paying clients’ minds? Is it not...

On Tuesday 12th Feburary, the Franz Palmer lecture hall was teeming with people, from students to Maastricht citizens, wearing classic or...

Happy new year! The Maastricht Diplomat is back from its winter break and we’re looking forward to 2019. It will be an exciting year. Two...