Like all other Modern Languages students in the UK, I couldn’t wait for my Year Abroad. Although it was cut short by coronavirus, I spent six months in the beautiful university town of Tübingen in south west Germany. I was…
Continue reading The New Erasmus+ – will the Turing Scheme be enough for Britain?
Find Luke‘s other articles On Brussels here After the UK’s departure a year ago, the EU hoped that then would be the time for a period of reflection, of soul-searching and potentially even reform. But a pandemic, economic crises, a belligerent UK…
Continue reading On Brussels: The Reconfiguration Can (Tentatively) Begin
The attack on the US Capitol is one week away as of writing this. The first few days were utter chaos and only now are we beginning to learn what actually happened and what the expected consequences are. The international…
(Part 1) In a great deal of European countries, the liberal parties of the 1970s acted as the first advocates of environmental protection – long before green parties took over their role with a new narrative. Sustainability has long been…
Continue reading Haunted by a Ghost in our Minds: Pleading for a Sustainable Liberalism
This month has seen many things happening in Romania: a fairly new member state in the EU. Firstly, the new European Cyber Security Competence Center will be opened in the Romanian capital of Bucharest. This will be the first EU…
Last time I wrote on how only accountability will save the Middle East Peace Process. I pointed out that both sides need to take responsibility for their actions. Also, I am sure that pressuring both sides to negotiate would bring…
Continue reading Omar’s Blog #6: Occupied with corruption — Palestine, an exceptional case
Find Luke‘s other articles On Brussels here Across the EU, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is being rapidly rolled out. Many EU members, including France, Germany, Spain and Sweden, will begin vaccinating en masse on 27 December. After a foul year, the end of…
Find our other interviews with liberal and democratic youth organisations here. How long have you been active in politics in general, and in Future Youth specifically? I actually started to be active in politics with Future Youth. That was almost…
Continue reading Interview with May el Masri from Future Youth
At the end of October, I had the possibility to travel to the northern part of Finland for a study trip. The aim of the trip was to learn about Sámi culture and the Sámi people – one of the…
I’m going to start with a very loaded and controversial claim that you may or may not have been used to hear on this blog: it’s not the media’s job to tell you the truth. I actually came to this…
Continue reading Your Media Diet Says More about You than the State of World
