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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...
Ana Navarro Bullo & Mercure Libbrecht Gourdet
Dec 12, 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...
Head Editor
May 10, 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...
Marence Jurgens
Apr 28, 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...
Paula Cepeda Gallo
Apr 13, 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...
Jan Haverman
Mar 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...
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Feb 28, 2021


NovUM: New and Unprecedented?
New, fresh, novel, unusual, and unprecedented; that is what Novum means in Latin. Would the party NovUM at UM represent the same values?...
Valentina Couceiro
Feb 17, 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)...
Teresa Costa
Jan 30, 2021


Student Politics 101
Right now, as you are sipping your cup of tea, someone is out there in the bureaucratic wilderness representing you..
Peter Pelzer
Nov 11, 2020
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