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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...

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...

Sena Gonel
Nov 29, 2024
Germany: Lets Go Green, But What About the Economy?
Germany without a doubt has one of the leading economies in the world, and as their ambitious energy transition is coming underway, it...


Jule Frank
Nov 28, 2024
COP29 and the History of Climate Inaction
COP29: The ‘Finance COP’ Between November 11 and 23, 2024, COP29 convened for nearly two weeks of debates, press conferences, and...

Jaap Steunenberg
Nov 26, 2024
The Fatal Flaw of the Dutch Welfare State
The Netherlands is a rich country. On a global, even European scale, it is extremely wealthy. It consistently ranks high in quality of...

Alexiane François
Nov 25, 2024
“If Crisis Comes” Lessons from Sweden and the Nordics on War
For the next two weeks, in addition to their weekly magazines and newspapers, millions of Swedes will receive in their mailboxes what...

Mark Sijtsma
Nov 20, 2024
Monuments of Peril and Power: The Politics of Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers have long transcended their utilitarian function, now serving as emblems of national pride, political power and economic...

Augustin Forjonel-Legrand
Nov 16, 2024
Germany: The New Sickman of Europe
“Blühende Landschaften” 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the former chancellor Helmut Kohl’s evocation of “Blühende...


Léa Besnard
Nov 15, 2024
Cancelled Protests in Utrecht: an Isolated Event or a Threat to the Right to Demonstrate in the Netherlands?
The nationwide protest against a 1 billion cut in the 2025 Dutch budget for higher education and research, originally scheduled in...


Léa Besnard
Nov 14, 2024
The Fall of a Dictator: An Account of the Student-People’s Uprising in Bangladesh
Quotas for government jobs may not be what you think would spark up a revolution — even though they were indeed the initial driver behind...

Sena Gonel
Nov 13, 2024
Femicides in Turkey: A National Emergency
The republic of Türkiye, majorly known as Turkey internationally, is a country in the Middle East famous for its tourist spots and...

Elena Bovée and Claire Anderson
Nov 12, 2024
U.S. Elections - He’s Back. What to expect from a second Trump presidency?
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. In what was predicted to be one of the closest U.S. presidential elections in...

Zeteny Jakab
Nov 11, 2024
Goodbye Eastern Europe? Opportunities in crisis for a region with a troubled past
The outbreak of the Ukraine War in 2022 pushed Eastern Europe into a perilous situation. A region historically ridden with imperial...


Simone Capuozzo
Nov 10, 2024
A Tale of Two Germanies - The Rise of AfD and BSW
The German coalition government has collapsed after Chancellor Scholz's decision to sack Finance Minister Lindner. The Chancellor has...

Patrycja Tobola
Nov 7, 2024
Poland's Deal With the EU: Protecting Borders or Violating Human Rights?
Since 2021, there has been an ongoing migration crisis present on the Polish-Belarusian border. Belarusian authorities, with the...
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