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Carolina Scheuch
Jan 5
Sunday Summary - 5th January 2025
We are officially a few days into the New Year: Happy New Year, everyone! Whether you celebrated at home, with family or friends, whether...
Léa Besnard
Dec 29, 2024
Sunday Summary - 29th December 2024: From Prison Cells to Headlines, 2024 Comes to a Close
Alleged CEO Shooter Faces Life Prison Sentencing in New York On the other side of the Atlantic, American media were engrossed all week...

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...
Miren-Alai Rudorfer
Dec 23, 2024
A Progressing or Decaying Democracy? Sunday Summary - 22nd December 2024
Is our democracy decaying or progressing? The age-old question, which often plagues our generation, once again is at the forefront of...


A.G Thor and Charlotte Godfried
Dec 19, 2024
FashionClash Film Programme: Mutual Attraction
In 100 Years of the Fashion Film , Marketa Uhlirova describes the relationship between fashion and cinema as a “mutual attraction.” In...


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...

Zeteny Jakab
Dec 15, 2024
Sunday Summary- 15th December 2024
Despite the year drawing to an end, issues around the world are far from being concluded. From the constitutional crisis of South Korea,...


Fin Gerke
Dec 15, 2024
Knitting in Norway: A Steady Hype
Knitting is going through a revival across social media, but in Norway, it was never dead. When I started my exchange in Trondheim,...


Faustine Rocoplan
Dec 14, 2024
CC - Have You Ever Heard of Sintra?
This town, located next to Lisbon, holds many castles and royal residences. It became a UNESCO Heritage Site in 1995 and the European...


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...

Augustin Forjonel-Legrand
Dec 9, 2024
Sunday Summary - 8th December 2024 - Diving in Troubled Waters: Worldwide Confusions and Concerns.
December is finally here and is supposed to be the “most wonderful time of the year”! However, this week, many sudden developments...

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...
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