A warm welcome from the Editor
Dear readers, With summer now officially over, the Christmas lights coming back up in Maastricht and the temperatures getting frigid...
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Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
Feb 21, 2022
The Maastricht Treaty turns 30
On 7th February 1992, the Maastricht Treaty established the foundation of the European Union. In a live broadcast organized by Studio...
Ana Navarro Bullo & Mercure Libbrecht Gourdet
Dec 12, 2021
Housing in Maastricht: A Human Right Being Sold Off
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...
Guest Writer
Jun 19, 2021
Divest Our Pensions
Guest article by Sarah Thin, PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law and former member of Fossil Free Maastricht Do you know where your...
Céline Zahno
May 22, 2021
Thoughts on rationality, empathy and asymmetry
You are born into this world as a vessel of a singular perception, an individual entity in possession of an individual consciousness. You...
Head Editor
May 10, 2021
University of Maastricht Student Council Elections
The University of Maastricht Student Council, a separate entity to the faculty-specific councils, is approaching re-election time. These...
Ethan Bergman
May 4, 2021
The persistent nature of Blood Diamonds: Permitting slavery in the Modern Diamond Pipeline
As the old saying goes, some would claim that Diamonds are forever. Yet, does that include the accompanying exploitative characteristics...
Peter Pelzer
Apr 30, 2021
Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act: a pragmatic step toward principled wilderness
In November 2020, almost unnoticed between a second wave of Covid infections and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court...
Marence Jurgens
Apr 28, 2021
Pan-European, pragmatic, and progressive – Volt Maastricht
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...
Paula Cepeda Gallo
Apr 13, 2021
The Backbone of the United Students of Maastricht: In Dialogue with the Party’s Founder.
As Maastricht University boasts a reputation as the most international university in the Netherlands, it is interesting to note that...
Ela Jade Unal
Apr 9, 2021
Getting Away with Murder: Entitlement and Accountability in Turkish Femicide
The decade has seen a massive rise in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Femicide in Turkey.Between 2008 and 2019, at least 3,185 women...
Jan Haverman
Mar 28, 2021
DOPE: Large, Pragmatic and Dutch
Maastricht's biggest student party demands the best possible education, even in Covid times. When Rozemarijn Kahle (second year student...
Guest Writer
Mar 13, 2021
Arabia’s Temple of Dreams and the World’s Horrifying Nightmares.
“Hey, you, the unfair tyrants… You the lovers of the darkness… You the enemies of life… You’ve made fun of innocent people’s wounds, and...
Jan Haverman
Mar 12, 2021
What a Day - a review.
After 6 years of beautiful but dark and bluesy songs, Ben Howard has released a track which makes us nostalgic about days yet to come....
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Feb 28, 2021
The Delicacy of Quoting The N-Word
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...
Céline Zahno
Feb 16, 2021
Do Humans Need Work to Have a Purpose?
It started with self-checkout counters at your local supermarkets and could soon transform virtually every aspect of your life; the rise...
Max Welford
Feb 11, 2021
Blatant unawareness doesn’t make you clever. How OutKast opened Hip-Hop to eccentricity
The commercial success and critical acclaim of OutKast is one of the most significant stories in modern-day (popular) music. Whether it...
Teresa Costa
Jan 30, 2021
MD gets to know the KAN Party
The Maastricht Diplomat recently interviewed Friederike Leppert, on behalf of KAN (Klimaat Actie Netwerk or Climate Action Network)...
Carmen Critelli
Jan 25, 2021
There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it.
Although 2021 was poorly inaugurated in the United States by the distasteful attempt to lay siege to Capitol Hill, on January 20, Joe...
Max Welford
Jan 17, 2021
For the lack of partying last year: 20 bangers you missed in 2020
As we now proceed to the next year, we are more than ready to leave behind what some would mildly describe as an uneventful year. This...
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