Reading time: 7 minutes Four years have passed since 2017 when Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron first faced each other in a series of presidential debates. Now, as the current president Emmanuel Macron’s [ … ]
COVID-19: the painful story of rise in racism
Reading time: 6 minutes After a year in quarantines and lockdowns, the threats posed by COVID-19 seem to be affecting not only the health of the people. With the outbreak of the pandemic there [ … ]
The king of Russia: how Putin’s rise to power threatens any prospect of democracy
Reading time: 7 minutes Vladimir Putin has been the president of Russia for over 20 years. During his career not only did he reestablish Russia, turning it into a global superpower, but he’s created [ … ]
EleBocconi 2021: the Graduate School debate
Reading time: 4 minutes In the week filled with EleBocconi events, one of the final and most important debates took place. It is the Graduate School debate in which two candidates – Alessandro Corona [ … ]
EleBocconi 2021: The Sport Committee Debate
Reading time: 4 minutes On April 15th, Annachiara Candeo and Leonardo Lotto took part in an online debate event as candidates for the Sport Committee representative position. In a heated discussion, the two candidates [ … ]
EleBocconi 2021: The ISU Committee debate
Reading time: 4 minutes On April 15th, during the week filled with EleBocconi discussions, the ISU Committee debate took place on the Bocconi TV YouTube channel. Representing B.Lab is David Cicchetti, CLEAM student and [ … ]
Myanmar: New Friendship With China and the Road Back To a Military Dictatorship
Reading time: 6 minutes At the beginning of 2021 the world was hopeful for change after a disastrous year. The emergence of a global pandemic and eruption of pro-democracy demonstrations across the globe, raging [ … ]
Giving the Mic to Women: The Journey of 3 Bocconi Professors
Reading time: 5 minutes Women in Business Bocconi recently organised an event called “Giving the Mic to Women: The Journey of 3 Bocconi Professors”. In this online meeting moderated by Prof. De Vries, three [ … ]
Small Country, Big Impact: Parliamentary Election in Lithuania
Reading time: 4 minutes For the past years, a small Baltic state called Lithuania was ruled by conservative coalitions that consistently failed to lead the state to progress and change its stagnant political status [ … ]
Hong Kong: its political turmoil and the gloomy future
Reading time: 7 minutes The imposition of Hong Kong’s Extradition Bill in the summer of 2019 caused dozens of protests during which millions of Hongkongers marched in the name of democracy. And while the [ … ]