The Dutch presidency of the Council of the European Union started on the 1st of January and will continue until the 30th of June 2016. The presidency declared that it will try to gear the EU towards focusing on what matters to Europe’s citizens and businesses, creating growth and jobs […]
Eliška Jelínková
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We mourned Paris twice, can we spare some tears for Ankara too? Ankara just went through a third suicide attack in five months that left at least 37 people dead. Yet many people wouldn’t know that because there was no option of marking yourself safe on Facebook, no option of […]
The event, that was conducted in the form of an interview followed by a Q&A session, took place on the 3rd of March at Informami. Being a collaboration between ASSP unimi, SIR (Students for IR) and Zeppelin, it was mainly a geopolitical reasoning about the role of NATO in today’s […]
Syria, a country where half the population has been uprooted by the ongoing conflict, which borders Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Israel where anti-government demonstrations began in the not so distant past; it was March of 2011. The protests were part of the Arab Spring uprising but over the years […]
Saudi Arabia kicked off the New Year with the execution of 47 people mainly convicted on terrorism charges as well as of being members of Al Qaeda according to the Saudi state news agency. The Human Rights Watch reported that it was “the largest mass execution in the country since […]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant also known as ISIS or just IS is a Salafi jihadist militant group that adheres to an Islamic fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam and currently controls vast territories in Iraq and Syria and a population ranging from 2.8 to 8 million […]