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Mar 20, 2018

MaasX Student Debate: An Analysis (Part Two)

4th Topic- The Housing Quota System Statement: The municipality should abolish the system of quotas on student houses per street. Again,...

PvdA Student Candidates: “We want to go back to the local feeling, to the core of Maastricht, one th

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Mar 19, 2018

PvdA Student Candidates: “We want to go back to the local feeling, to the core of Maastricht, one th

The running Social-Democratic party argues that nuisance and student housing, drug violence and drug tourism should not be framed as...

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Mar 18, 2018

MaasX Student Debate: An Analysis (Part One)

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

2018 Russian Presidential Elections: The Last Season of Putin’s Era?

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Mar 17, 2018

2018 Russian Presidential Elections: The Last Season of Putin’s Era?

Sunday 18th March presidential elections will be held in the Russian Federation. Ever since 2000, (2008-2012 as prime minister), Vladimir...

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Mar 16, 2018

Brexit: Where We Are At

The past week has been quite eventful regarding the ongoing Brexit negotiations. The EU presented the first draft of, what is to be, the...

M:OED #4 Candidate: “You have to be quite bold to bring about change”.

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Mar 13, 2018

M:OED #4 Candidate: “You have to be quite bold to bring about change”.

Martin van Rooij, last year FASoS European Studies, fourth on the M:OED list for the municipal elections details the newborn party’s...

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Mar 5, 2018

Let’s Talk about Yemen.

Every day we hear the news about atrocities happening in Syria or Afghanistan and the death toll for which this situation is responsible....

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Mar 4, 2018

2018 Italian Elections: An Overview (Part Two)

Partito Democratico (Democratic Party) Partito Democratico is the party that has run the last two governments with a fleeting chariot. In...

2018 Italian Elections: An Overview (Part One)

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Mar 3, 2018

2018 Italian Elections: An Overview (Part One)

The Sunday’s vote: possible post-election scenarios On Sunday the 4th of March, Italian people are called to the polls for the...

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Mar 2, 2018

The 2018 Winter Olympics: Shots Fired

Historically, the Olympic Games have mirrored political ambience. It is no surprise that the 2018 Winter Olympic Games have shown...

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Feb 27, 2018

The 2018 Oscars: Movies’ Suggestions and Reviews

Are this year’s Oscars movies worth the hype? As the night of the Oscars quickly draws closer, everyone seems to have become a movie...

VVD Maastricht Student Candidates: Interview with Nicky Beckers (#5) and Guiseppe Noteborn (#6)

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Feb 24, 2018

VVD Maastricht Student Candidates: Interview with Nicky Beckers (#5) and Guiseppe Noteborn (#6)

On the 17th of February 2018, Giovanni Stanga and Gaia Lisi, respectively the Head and the Co-Head of the UNSA Journal Committee, had the...

2018 Munich Security Conference: ‘To the Brim and Back?’

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Feb 23, 2018

2018 Munich Security Conference: ‘To the Brim and Back?’

The world has moved away from the relative order of American hegemony and has become more unstable, more multi-polar and eroded along...

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Feb 23, 2018

The Eternal Syrian War

The Syrian Conflict: Overview of Current Actors and Patterns In 2011, a group of teenagers in Southern Syria wrote on a wall some...

Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel’s PM on the Brink of the Abyss

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Feb 22, 2018

Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel’s PM on the Brink of the Abyss

Israel. Rarely has there been a single word that conjures up such a divisive opinion. And it continues to impress in that regard. Current...

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Feb 21, 2018

Welcome Mr. Ramaphosa

On February 15, 2018, less than 24hrs after Mr Jacob Zuma stepped down, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in as the fifth President of...

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Feb 20, 2018

Goodbye and Good Riddance: Jacob Zuma’s Resignation

A change of regime in Southern Africa is the flavour of the moment. Just a few months ago Robert Mugabe, at the time the world’s oldest...

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Feb 17, 2018

Vietnam Experience: Part II

I still remember the adventures of my first day of work. Coming back to school from lunch break, I was a bit sleepy and completely lost...

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Feb 15, 2018

Vietnam Experience: Part I

My volunteering experience with the Centre for Development Sustainable Studies (CSDS) in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, has undoubtedly...

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Feb 12, 2018

Food in Europe: Green, Orange or Red Light?

We all know the moment when someone asks us at the end of the year whether we have New Year’s resolutions or not. By now, you probably...