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Simone Capuozzo
3 days ago
The Struggle for Free Speech: Social Media and the EU Digital Services Act
Free speech is back. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has surprised the online world by announcing the termination of fact-checking...


Und Jetzt? Germany's future after the elections
Do you think this is just the start? It's over, finally! After more than three and a half months of a dirty electoral campaign, the...


Head Editor
Mar 5
Wake EUp!
We, students of Europe, believe in a more powerful European Union. You may think it's a craze, but we assure you that European...

Jakob Aufenberg
Feb 27
Is He Just Teasing Us?
Trumpian Rhetoric In A Sensitive Question A lunatic is best identified by his erratic words, followed by actions alike. The US President...

Charlotte Pennings
Feb 24
Diagnosing the Crisis: How to Explain the Structural Failures of the US Healthcare Model?
Last October, in the early days of my exchange program in Washington, D.C., I found myself at a birthday dinner. As the conversation...


Jade Thiebaut
Feb 22
The UN Security Council: Victim of Inefficiency or Lack of Legitimacy in International Relations?
The United Nations was founded in 1945 with a clear mission: to maintain international peace, enforce international law, and prevent...

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show and the Politics of Performance
Except if you live in a cave, you could not have missed the annual U.S. Superbowl game, which took place in New Orleans (Louisiana) on...

Esther Wolff
Feb 19
“Please don’t let it be a Muslim”: an interview on Islamophobia and racism after last summer’s events in the UK
On July 29 2024 in Southport, 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana was arrested after repeatedly stabbing three little girls as they left a Taylor...


Jules Boelens
Feb 13
Ethiopia’s Strategic Pursuit of Water and Maritime Access Through Somalia
The Horn of Africa is witnessing new unrest as Ethiopia seeks access to water and port facilities through Somalia. Ethiopia’s move, the...

Jaap Steunenberg
Feb 11
China’s Solar Oceans
On a sweat-inducing, sweltering day last summer I landed in Shanghai. It had been a long time coming. Since high school, I had wanted to...

Patrycja Tobola
Feb 10
Silent Suffering: China's hidden grasp on Hong Kong
When I was planning my solo trip to the mountains this year, I had no idea I would meet this inspiring Hong Kong citizen along the way...

Emma Larrue
Feb 7
The Gaza Ceasefire : 3 Stages for 1 Lasting Peace
On January 15, 2025, after 15 brutal months of conflict, a temporary ceasefire deal was finally reached between Israel and Gaza...


Jule Frank
Feb 4
Germany: Stop Playing With Fire
At exactly 12 PM on January 29 , the German parliament gathered in Berlin for a memorial service in honour of the Holocaust victims. The...

Zeteny Jakab
Jan 31
Tech titans to tech tyrants: The remarkable journey of tech entrepreneurs to the heart of power
“I believe the former president should be responsible for his words, and the people who broke the law should be responsible for their...


Léa Besnard
Jan 27
How to Bring Down a Tyranny: Lessons from South Africa to Palestine
A few days ago, I watched a documentary at Lumière titled Ernest Cole, Lost and Found , which explored the brutal history of Apartheid in...

Elena Bovée
Jan 23
The Trial of Luigi Mangione and the American HealthCare System
On December 4th this year, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare Brian Thomson was shot dead as he was walking to the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel...

Patrycja Tobola
Jan 17
Terror at the Christmas Market: A Catalyst for Migration Debate
The 20th of December, only four days before Christmas, turned out to be a tragic day for many German citizens. A car driven by...


Fin Gerke
Jan 15
The UN’s New Cybercrime Treaty: Win against Cybercrime or Loss for Human Rights?
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has adopted a new Convention against Cybercrime on December 24th 2024. The multiple years of...

Jakob Aufenberg
Dec 29, 2024
Don't Paint It All Black
Much ink has been spilled about the German political and economic demise from domestic and foreign contributors. This is the great thing...


Guest Writer - Andrea Dartigues
Dec 24, 2024
Martial Law in South Korea and Impeachment of the President, 11 days of tension in Seoul.
South Korea has been in political turmoil since December 3rd when President Yoon Suk-yeol declared Martial Law at 22:30 in a television...


Augustin Forjonel-Legrand
Dec 17, 2024
French governmental crisis: Fears and apprehensions from a French student
Plot Twist I don’t have the age to vote. Still, my age didn’t stop me from being surprised by last June Parliament’s dissolution and...


Léa Besnard
Dec 16, 2024
"Let the IDF win and f*** the Arabs:” What Really Happened during Amsterdam’s Unrest after Europa League Football Match
On November 7th, the Europa League football match between the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax in Amsterdam led to violent clashes...


Simone Capuozzo
Dec 13, 2024
Sportswashing FC? Saudi Expansion in the Beautiful Game
It is official: Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 edition of the FIFA World Cup, the biggest sporting event in the world. The anticipated...


Jet Brinkman
Dec 12, 2024
Unravelling Dutch Politics: What international students should know about the government and its education reforms
As every student has probably deduced from the amount of emails UM has sent out, Dutch universities are not particularly excited about...

Mahault Etienne
Dec 7, 2024
Global Change Hidden in Plain Sight: The ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion
On Tuesday, I was on my way to the Law Café to get myself a cappuccino, as usual. In the background, the TV was not playing the usual...

Emma Larrue
Dec 6, 2024
Ukraine’s Next Chapter? 1,000 Days and Counting
As the Ukrainian conflict exceeds a thousands days of relentless fighting, the war has entered an unpredictable phase with heightened...


Jade Thiebaut
Dec 5, 2024
Has the royal family in Spain become a symbol of division instead of unity?
The Spanish monarchy is a subject of significant divide within Spanish society. Indeed, the royal family raises many questions from a...


Ana Navarro
Dec 4, 2024
No Other Land wins IDFA Audience Award as Israel paves the way for Gaza’s resettlement
No Other Land has won the IDFA NPO Doc Audience Award 2024 , the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) public prize...

Zeteny Jakab
Dec 3, 2024
Data center wars: How the AI Revolution is drawing the new geopolitical battlelines
It is a 100,000 m2 large, energy-consuming, grey box, that stores innumerate computers. What is it? If your guess was a data centre, you...


Violette Gabriel
Dec 2, 2024
French mass rapes: How the horrific rapes of Gisèle Pelicot highlight the huge effort still needed to achieve gender equality
Trigger warning. This article tackles several difficult topics, including rape and being drugged. More and more people are claiming that...

Sena Gonel
Nov 29, 2024
Germany: Lets Go Green, But What About the Economy?
Germany without a doubt has one of the leading economies in the world, and as their ambitious energy transition is coming underway, it...


Jule Frank
Nov 28, 2024
COP29 and the History of Climate Inaction
COP29: The ‘Finance COP’ Between November 11 and 23, 2024, COP29 convened for nearly two weeks of debates, press conferences, and...

Jaap Steunenberg
Nov 26, 2024
The Fatal Flaw of the Dutch Welfare State
The Netherlands is a rich country. On a global, even European scale, it is extremely wealthy. It consistently ranks high in quality of...

Alexiane François
Nov 25, 2024
“If Crisis Comes” Lessons from Sweden and the Nordics on War
For the next two weeks, in addition to their weekly magazines and newspapers, millions of Swedes will receive in their mailboxes what...

Mark Sijtsma
Nov 20, 2024
Monuments of Peril and Power: The Politics of Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers have long transcended their utilitarian function, now serving as emblems of national pride, political power and economic...

Augustin Forjonel-Legrand
Nov 16, 2024
Germany: The New Sickman of Europe
“Blühende Landschaften” 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the former chancellor Helmut Kohl’s evocation of “Blühende...


Léa Besnard
Nov 15, 2024
Cancelled Protests in Utrecht: an Isolated Event or a Threat to the Right to Demonstrate in the Netherlands?
The nationwide protest against a 1 billion cut in the 2025 Dutch budget for higher education and research, originally scheduled in...


Léa Besnard
Nov 14, 2024
The Fall of a Dictator: An Account of the Student-People’s Uprising in Bangladesh
Quotas for government jobs may not be what you think would spark up a revolution — even though they were indeed the initial driver behind...

Sena Gonel
Nov 13, 2024
Femicides in Turkey: A National Emergency
The republic of Türkiye, majorly known as Turkey internationally, is a country in the Middle East famous for its tourist spots and...

Elena Bovée and Claire Anderson
Nov 12, 2024
U.S. Elections - He’s Back. What to expect from a second Trump presidency?
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. In what was predicted to be one of the closest U.S. presidential elections in...

Zeteny Jakab
Nov 11, 2024
Goodbye Eastern Europe? Opportunities in crisis for a region with a troubled past
The outbreak of the Ukraine War in 2022 pushed Eastern Europe into a perilous situation. A region historically ridden with imperial...


Simone Capuozzo
Nov 10, 2024
A Tale of Two Germanies - The Rise of AfD and BSW
The German coalition government has collapsed after Chancellor Scholz's decision to sack Finance Minister Lindner. The Chancellor has...

Patrycja Tobola
Nov 7, 2024
Poland's Deal With the EU: Protecting Borders or Violating Human Rights?
Since 2021, there has been an ongoing migration crisis present on the Polish-Belarusian border. Belarusian authorities, with the...


Head Editor - Sarah Hourquet
Oct 29, 2024
U.S. Elections: Perspectives from abroad: Interview of two American students living in Europe.
We are now one week from knowing who will be the new U.S. president for four years. Looking at the polls , the score plans to be tight....

Vanille Villez
Oct 3, 2024
U.S. Elections - Understanding Harris: a dive into Kamala Harris’ political strategy.
Kamala Harris’ sudden campaign start for the US presidential elections has not been easy. Since the 27th of June, with the debacle of the...

Elena Bovée
Sep 25, 2024
U.S. Elections - Inside the Democratic National Convention and the future of the United States.
In the United States, every four years right before the presidential election, the two major political parties hold a four-day convention...

Charlotte Pennings
Sep 16, 2024
U.S. Elections - 2024 Presidential Debate Bingo: Takeaways from Tuesday Night’s Comedy
On the evening of September 10th, 2024, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump went head-to-head for 90 minutes in their first-ever in-person...
Ana Navarro Bullo
Aug 28, 2024
A chat with Wilson Fache: how war reporting is navigating a new wave of civilian journalism
“Journalism was not a child's dream”, says Wilson Fache, winner of the Albert Londres Prize and independent war reporter born in...


Carolina Scheuch
Jun 29, 2024
Talking human rights and police brutality
In the last few months, the right to protest has become a salient theme for many people across Europe. Especially us students have...
Matthijs Lenaerts
Jun 8, 2024
02.06.2024: Elections bonanza
Sunday Summary 02-06-2024: Last week saw the conclusion of three more elections in the veritable voting bonanza that is 2024 and all...
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