Reading time: 3 minutes How to become a political candidate at 18? Chiara has been recently elected to Milan Municipio 5 council. Read her 10 tips on how to get to represent our generation [ … ]
Tag: politics
The French Elections: what to expect when the right and center clash?
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 [ … ]
A new guide for Milan
Reading time: 3 minutes This Sunday and Monday, more than a million people are called to vote to elect the new mayor of Milan. Will this mean five more years of Beppe Sala? It’s [ … ]
Eroding Trust: How governments’ image has changed across the world
Reading time: 3 minutes The author investigates how citizens’ trust in governments has changed and what factors have been driving the changes. She describes and examines data, highlights critical junctures, and lays out alternative [ … ]
Political (in)effectiveness in Latin America
Reading time: 5 minutes How the pandemic has uncovered Latin America’s biggest operational risks: political fragmentation, corruption and ineffective policy formulation. A study published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently evidenced the operational [ … ]
Colombia’s Political Economy of Violence
Reading time: 6 minutes #nosestamosmatando A roadmap to understanding Colombia’s surging protests. For the past week, Colombia has been in the headlines of multiple national and international newspapers. On 28th April 2021, after the [ … ]
Italian politics: students take over the mic
Reading time: 4 minutes The only way to understand something is to ask about people’s opinions on it, this article will help shape your view on Italian politics from the perspective of students. In [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Is the storming of the US Capitol the end or the beginning of the political divide in America?
Reading time: 6 minutes January 6th, 2021 is a date that future students of American (and global) history will likely have to remember by heart. It is not “a day that will live in [ … ]
The European approach to US elections
Reading time: 3 minutes Why are Europeans not as concerned by their own elections as they are by American ones? Now that President Biden has been sworn in after tense months, a couple of thoughts – on Europe [ … ]