Politics & The World

by Hannah Soraya Last Sunday Catalonia held its regional elections with the purpose of choosing its regional parliament. The electorate, however, headed out to the polls with one prevalent thought in mind: Independence, yes or no? These elections were not called as a referendum on independence (such as the one illegally held on November 9th […]

Politics & The World

by Christoph Heuermann Traveling through a wonderful country with equally bad reputation animates to write about its cause. I am in Mexico – a country where 100.000 people died in the last 8 years over something you might have already smoked or sniffed. Drugs – accompanying humans since the stone age – are currently prohibited […]

Career & EducationPolitics & The World

As David Cameron got re-elected last month, he had no choice but to give in to pressure from UKIP: in 2017, or maybe even earlier, the British population will vote on the membership of Britain in the EU. In case of a ‘Brexit’, this referendum would have major consequences; not only for businesses, farmers and […]

Politics & The World

by Jackson Webster In the twentieth century, Europe and the West won modern history. The century’s three great struggles —the world wars and the Cold War— which spanned the globe were unprecedentedly bloody and destructive, but the fact that they were all fought between competing European ideologies says a great deal about the infectiousness of […]

Politics & The World

by Louise Bicknese   I am a feminist. There, I said it. The ‘F-word’ has been associated with bra-burning man-haters for a long time, but since Emma Watson’s fabulous speech for the UN and her ‘HeForShe’-campaign, gender inequality issues are back on the political agenda. And they are rightfully there. I interviewed Vĕra Jourová, Eurocommissioner for […]