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Saudi Arabia’s Scary Politics
Two days ago, it was Halloween; that beautiful time of year where one can spot a very drunk Harry Potter hold back a vampire’s hair while...
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Nov 2, 2019


A Run among the Tombstones
The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never any more the dead....
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Oct 29, 2019


Maastricht in state of emergency: what we missed
As in every proper university town, the daily routine in Maastricht’s streets, pubs and seminar rooms is occasionally interrupted by an...
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Oct 27, 2019


The Different Faces of Volunteering
The llamas I herded being good for once Imagine being in a strange country, thousands of kilometres away from anything familiar, trying...
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Oct 26, 2019
Big People Tweet and Small People Suffer
Yesterday hundreds of villagers in Afghanistan came together to bury their loved ones and share their grief with each other and the...
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Oct 20, 2019


Paying the price for the man who forgot the Art of the Deal
It should not be news that the United States has pulled its troops from Syria, leaving the Kurdish forces alone in their fight against...
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Oct 13, 2019


Losing Anonymity
This week in the news we are going to take a step back from the politics of the West and turn our heads towards the East. Hong Kong has...
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Oct 6, 2019


A Battle of the Balls Up
This week on the hit show, ‘Oh Brother’ … The Democratic Party has begun its impeachment charge on President Trump. However, this time...
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Sep 29, 2019
The Three Faces of Today’s Politics
Two-faced What a week UK’s Boris Johnson is having. BoJo’s no-show featured heavily in a prop comedy skit skilfully put on by...
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Sep 24, 2019


Who is your prospective room-mate?
Finding a room in Maastricht can be a mission. By now that’s not a secret anymore. Almost everyone knows the struggle and people are...
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Sep 23, 2019


The Landbouwbelang – A Space for All?
New year, new faces, old faces, same spaces. The usual things that are said in September I suppose. This is certainly the case for me,...
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Sep 22, 2019


The Big Man is Dead, Long Live the Big Man
Recently, the world was given the news that Robert Mugabe has passed away. For some, this does not mean much, or have much of an impact...
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Sep 15, 2019


Poorly Outsourced
Photograph by Sebastien Le Derout Before you start reading, I would like to mention that this post was originally made for a course I am...
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Jun 8, 2019


EU Politics: Another Day in the Office?
Karl Marx once said: “Men make their own history not under circumstances they themselves have chosen, but under the given and inherited...
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Jun 2, 2019


The Game of Europe’s Thrones
After 8 years playing with our emotions, making us laugh, scream, jump and cry, Game of Thrones is over. The last episode divided the...
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May 26, 2019


European Elections – Why I’m Going to Vote for the Social Democrats.
The European elections are coming up fast, a few days only separate us from the time we’ll have to go voting. In a recent article, we...
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May 21, 2019


Everything You Need To Know About the European Elections!
Our Podcast 101-Guide The MD is proud to publish its first ever Podcast pilot episode. This is the first time we’ve ever done something...
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May 20, 2019


EP Elections Coming Up – But Many Issues Remain
One week is left until the EU parliamentary elections. It has been a long way to get to this point, especially with Brexit, as there was...
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May 19, 2019


8th May 1945: A Day to Remember
Last Wednesday, we entered the year of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. On 8th May 1945, the Allied powers...
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May 12, 2019


What It Means to be European
For this year’s Europe Day, I will tell you why I consider myself to be an EU citizen before anything else. I, in no way, am trying to...
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May 9, 2019
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