It has only begun
By James Mackle | A year ago, when I was still in The Diplomat, I wrote an article about there being two Maastrichts. Its cosmopolitan...
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Mar 13, 2017
Review: What T2: Trainspotting Means To Me
By Fiona O’Hara | The buzz surrounding the release of the long-awaited sequel to the cult classic ‘Trainspotting’ was something that I...
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Mar 8, 2017
8 March, IWD
By Lize De Potter You might think this is just another drowsy and slow Wednesday in Maastricht. Perhaps you have to sit through the...
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Mar 3, 2017
A few stories from the HamMUN Conference
When looking back at the year 2016, it can safely be said that there were a number of events that made it look like a turning point away...
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Feb 22, 2017
Fuel for the Climate
By Tara Kuijpers | Biofuels: just another alternative or our saviour in the making? The first point that needs to be cleared, is what...
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Feb 19, 2017
Economic Colonialism
I visited Mexico for three weeks over Christmas and New Year except this isn’t a travel journal or a list of recommended places to visit....
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Feb 16, 2017
Womb for Rent
India’s commercial surrogacy industry is estimated at $2.3 billion a year and thriving, branded the “surrogacy hub”, couples flock from...
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Feb 13, 2017
Cooling our Jets: The Case Against Space Colonization
Space colonization, or the idea of establishing colonies of humans on other planets, was once simply the science fiction behind stories...
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Feb 10, 2017
The Environmental Debate on Oldschool versus Modern
It almost seems like a century old debate: which one is better, paper or digital media? The first debate you will probably think of is...
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Feb 6, 2017
A Different Approach to Sports
Many students nowadays are able to count themselves as the lucky people in the world; to be able to travel the planet and live and study...
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Feb 4, 2017
Lying for Healthcare & Killing to Avoid It
Obamacare is first on the chopping block now he-who-should-not-be-named has taken to the Oval Office and the British NHS is reportedly in...
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Jan 29, 2017
How to cope with 2017
It’ not often you can look back on a year and say with confidence that the world as we know it has fundamentally altered. I wish that I...
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Jan 26, 2017
How Australia Day is Dividing Australians
It is that time of the year again when there are special ads about lamb on Australian television and the annual debate of refusing to...
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Jan 24, 2017
Feminazi
“Feminazi”? – I had never heard the term until recently, when I was called it for the first time, it was in response to what I believe to...
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Jan 20, 2017
Enemies of the People
Traitors? Terrorists? Corrupt bankers? Even more corrupt politicians? No, just three British judges. November 3rd 2016 marked a historic...
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Jan 11, 2017
The World’s Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect is a complex mathematical theory that essentially describes how the minimum flutter of a butterfly could cause a...
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Jan 4, 2017
Free trade – the new bogey
It seems as if the world of populists has recently found a new economic bogey: free trade. Rather run away screaming, than ever go into a...
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Dec 17, 2016
The Little Victories
2016 has not been a good year. We have had terror attacks across the world, the continuing conflict in Syria, and the refugee crisis that...
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Dec 6, 2016
How to be Dutch: Sinterklaas
Dear non-Dutchies, This is to all international students who are desperately trying to find their place in the Netherlands. It might come...
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Dec 3, 2016
Can a YES Change Italy?
2016 has definitely been a year of political decisions. From the British referendum in June that made Brexit happen to the US elections...
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