Career & EducationPolitics & The World

27 years – one million babies. This can be seen as one of the positive balances for the ERASMUS-programme, the student exchange within the European Union. Every third student hooks up with people from other countries – the unofficial Erasmus slogan, titled by the German newspaper Die Zeit “Erasmus Orgasmus” so certainly has its truth. Yet […]

Politics & The World

The last European elections were special. For the first time, each party group nominated a candidate for Commission President. Among my fellow European Studies students at Maastricht University this raised much excitement. It was widely seen as a step in the fight against the much debated democratic deficit and for endowing the Commission with more […]