It’s a Wednesday afternoon in Maastricht. In the sustainability hub, a group of Maastricht University (UM) students gather to unload...

Dear readers, welcome to your weekly Maastricht Diplomat Sunday Summary! In store today, we have a rundown of highlights in yet another...

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Front and center at TEFAF is the Landau Fine Art Gallery. Their relatively large stand at 414 is earned by frequenting Europe's finest...

The trend is becoming clearer: the EU is entering its 'rearmament era'. On Thursday, March 6th, just hours after US President Donald...

For a second, the only sound you hear is the little beep  of your ticket being scanned, your fingers grasping it gently in fear of...

On March 10, 2025, Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Charaa , and the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi ,...

Highlighted stories from this week. New IOC-chairwoman Even though women have competed in the Olympics since 1900, one prize has eluded...

Van Cleef & Arpels is perhaps most known today for its iconic Alhambra. The clover charm almost serves as a logo for the brand itself....

In 2026, we are expected to be tired. Or we already are. Habitually, we are deleting social media applications from our phones in a...

Donald J. Trump, the self-proclaimed master negotiator, has already caused plenty of turmoil in his second term as president of the...

Growing up in Sicily, I was inevitably made aware that my beloved land, even though beautiful, was haunted by an unspoken shadow: “Cosa...

You’ve likely heard of the dazzling, decadent world of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books, which defined the Roaring Twenties and cemented his...

Negotiations on the War in Ukraine: Make “peace,” not war?   During his campaign, Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine “within...

Free speech is back. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has surprised the online world by announcing the termination of fact-checking...

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a lecture by multinational, Zionist activist Rawan Osman on Wednesday evening, accusing her of...

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...

Trump and Ukraine dominate news in the Nordics, the Nordic Ski Championship comes to an end, and local news in the week's review of nordic p

We, students of Europe, believe in a more powerful European Union.  You may think it's a craze, but we assure you that European...

To all the darling readers seeking a recap of this week’s news, here is the Sunday Summary of the second of March.  The Zelensky and...

“Isle be back”  “I told you that I would be back in Mayotte soon.” After spending a few weeks on the small French island of La Réunion,...

The evening of Saturday the 8th of February 2025 was a quiet Saturday evening in my life. I had done my daily chores, had done my share...

Trumpian Rhetoric In A Sensitive Question A lunatic is best identified by his erratic words, followed by actions alike. The US President...

Last October, in the early days of my exchange program in Washington, D.C., I found myself at a birthday dinner. As the conversation...

Dear readers, as another week in 2025 comes to a close, here’s your Sunday Summary—your essential recap of the week’s biggest events....

If you are a seeker of fervent poetry and unforgiving summer heat and ways to turn life to art and art to life until the two are one and...

The United Nations  was founded in 1945 with a clear mission: to maintain international peace, enforce international law,  and prevent...

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...

Baby names. For some people, especially women and girls, the act of naming their baby, whether they are expecting it or not, is a ritual....

On July 29 2024 in Southport, 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana was arrested after repeatedly stabbing three little girls as they left a Taylor...

For Wiccans, travel isn’t just about seeing new places: it’s about feeling them, understanding them, and letting them shape you. The...

Another week of 2025 is coming to an end (already!), and with it comes the Diplomat’s weekly news recap. In today’s Sunday Summary, we’ll...

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your...

The Horn of Africa is witnessing new unrest as Ethiopia seeks access to water and port facilities through Somalia. Ethiopia’s move, the...

For the rest of the world, life goes on as usual. Women and men, sitting together at round café tables, sipping coffee and chatting about...

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...

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...

Dear readers, to all those who follow the news day and night, here is the summary of Sunday 9 February, always rich in major events,...

On January 15, 2025, after 15 brutal months of conflict, a temporary ceasefire deal  was finally reached between Israel and Gaza...

In January 2025, Southern California experienced unprecedented wildfires, most destructively the Palisades and Eaton fires . The...

At exactly 12 PM on January 29 , the German parliament gathered in Berlin for a memorial service in honour of the Holocaust victims. The...

World news these days is abundant and reads a bit like lyrics to Billy Joel's masterclass: We didn't start the fire It was always burning...

Last semester I decided it was time for me to get back into reading. So I looked into the big pile of my procrastination bookshelf, saw...

“I believe the former president should be responsible for his words, and the people who broke the law should be responsible for their...

"UNSA is a platform for opportunity,"  says Darko Petrovic, founder of the UN Student Association Maastricht. The existence of this...

A few days ago, I watched a documentary at Lumière titled Ernest Cole, Lost and Found , which explored the brutal history of Apartheid in...

Dear readers, it is officially the last Sunday of the first month of the year! And what a week it has been for our American friends, as...

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...

‘You must pay your cat tax!’ is what Chinese users of Red Note, also known as Xiaohongshu, are demanding of new American users. The cat...

In the lion’s den  “ I wanted to teach where it would benefit the students most. ” In this way, Hugo Girard, a 24-year-old History and...