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"Hey you! Do you know what an Alleycat is?"
Alleycat Maastricht, bringing the Bike Messenger Community back If you go around the city of Maastricht, riding your bike randomly, maybe...
Sarah Hourquet
Dec 8, 2023


How (not) to talk about Israel-Palestine
As I am sure many of you have too, I have been closely following the escalating conflict in Gaza these last few weeks. The increasing...
Matthijs Lennaerts
Dec 7, 2023


Beyond skin-deep: the politics of tattooing
When I was in New Zealand, I fancied a typical Māori tattoo. I found the symbols and their function as representations of one’s life...
Carolina Scheuch
Dec 6, 2023
Negotiations
The United Nations Climate Change Conference began this Thursday (COP28) in Expo City, Dubai. It is hoped that the conference will...
Anna Gudny
Dec 3, 2023


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...
Jules Boelens
Dec 2, 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...
Célia Beckmann
Dec 1, 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...
Jule Frank & Philipp Iger
Nov 30, 2023


A Drowning Dream
Welcome to St Vincent Island full of Sand and Wind and the Scent of summer and salt surrounded by the dancing waves...
Becci Niederhoff
Nov 30, 2023
The Paradox Of Being
As November winds down, a chill in the air ushers in thoughts of the year's end. Day by day, as I go about my day, I watch the Christmas...
Anahita Lotfollahzadeh
Nov 27, 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...
Moira Zobel
Nov 21, 2023
A Reflective Sunday Summary on Diplomacy, Global Crises, and the Media Landscape
It is the 19th of November, and another week has gone by which means that it’s time for a Sunday Summary. On Friday, I visited three...
Moira Zobel
Nov 19, 2023


Am I the only one? My bitter-sweet after-taste of “Barbie” by Greta Gerwig.
On July 20th, 2023, a day after watching “Barbie” by Greta Gerwig I opened my phone to scroll on TikTok, the usual. After only a few...
Jessica Giovanella
Nov 15, 2023
The current state of Palestine, elections and deforestation: an update
First and foremost, this edition of our weekly Sunday Summary needs to address pressing news concerning the war between Hamas and Israel....
Sarah Hourquet
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...
Sarah Hourquet & Jessica Giovanella
Nov 12, 2023


Red Rising
“Red Rising" written by Pierce Brown is the first of a thrilling science fiction saga that spans six books. “I would have lived in peace....
Amira Hamadeh
Nov 10, 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...
Amira Hamadeh
Nov 5, 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...
Ninetin Lu
Oct 30, 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...
Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
Oct 28, 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...
Ana Navarro Bullo
Oct 25, 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,...
Jonathan Wijayaratne
Oct 19, 2023
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