Esther Versluis, the Chair of the Election Board opened up the election results ceremony by asking for a round of applause and...

The Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience has one of the smaller Faculty Councils at Maastricht University with just five student...

The upcoming elections between the 16th to 19th of May will decide next year’s SBE Faculty Council members. The Faculty Council is the...

It’s that time of year again, from the 16th until the 19th of May you will be able to cast your votes in the online student elections....

From the 16th to the 19th of May, Maastricht University holds online elections for the University’s Council. These elections are open to...

The elections this year for the Faculty Council are taking place from 16 to 19 May. The Law Faculty attracts students from all over the...

Another year, another round of FASoS student elections. But what exactly are these elections about? Well, I’m here to give you an...

Faculty Council Students The Faculty of Science and Engineering, which consists of the Maastricht Science Program, the Department of Data...

Why did I decide to participate in the elections at the University of Maastricht? I was born in a country of Eastern Europe, lived there...

Lockdown. People can only leave their homes for emergencies. Large events are prohibited. The immense momentum of the 2019 Fridays for...

From 14 to 16 March, municipalities all over the Netherlands call their residents to the polls to elect their municipal councils for the...

8 AM: in which room is your class? 1 PM: what do you need to read for tomorrow? 4PM: have you gotten confirmation about the exchange for...

Ah, so you’ve caught feelings for that one person in your tutorial group months ago, and seeing them again at the resit really set your...

Travel or you’ll become racist, And you’ll end up believing That your skin is the only one that is right That your language is the most...

The decision for the SBE Faculty Council next year is set to be decided in the upcoming election between 17th to 20th May. The Faculty...

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...

On October 9th, an auditorium packed to the rafters welcomed Mr. Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent,...

Are you interested in or concerned about today’s economic situation? Up for discussions and controversy? Keen to meet like-minded and...

If you missed the Schumann Lecture at 7th May, worry not! Here is a summary of and commentary on Michael Ignatieff’s lecture on Open...

How happy are you with the EU? Do you think you are democratically represented through the institutional set-up consisting of the...

The longest, bloodiest and most complex War that has ever been fought in the world’s history. A War in which a myriad of factors...

Introduction- The Debate’s Structure The Franz Palm Lecture Hall is packed. 400 students, or even more, have come to the Student Debate...

On Monday 22nd January, MaasX organised an open evening named “Maastricht- What’s up Democracy?” for members of the Maastricht community...

Donovan Livingston. Harvard Graduate. It has a certain ring to it, and one would expect things from such a name and title; and I believe...

Do we live in a world of paranoia and selfishness? Realist thinkers certainly think so. Realism as a school of foreign policy was the...

He adjusted his jacket, made a wide smile and, after having thanked the moderator and sticked to the formal pleasantries, addressed to...

On Monday the 6th of November, Maastricht University had the privilege to welcome on its premises a world renowned foreign correspondent...