Research

One of the recent big implicated headlines, besides corona and the combat of systematic racism, is the meat industry. Europe and the US have faced increased infections in slaughterhouses. In Germany, the undertaking Tönnies was found with 1500 infected workers with Covid-19. The bad working conditions of the workers contributed to a fast spread of […]

Introduction In the past centuries, the Mediterranean has become, from many points of view, a border. Border between Christians on the North and Muslims on the South and the East. Border between Arabic and Latin languages. Border between a mainly desert landscape thus lifestyle and a much fertile one in the North. Border between colonial […]

The European Union (EU) brings forth a renewed form of united diversity coupled with spirits of optimism. Solidifying fostered collaboration, empowering economic activity, and celebrating democracy, this body has emerged to become a unique political and economic intergovernmental organization that is supranational in nature. Ultimately, the union’s formation was a response to the destruction of […]

Ursula von der Leyen will take up her new post as President of the Commission on 1 November 2019, replacing Jean-Claude Juncker. Currently, she is still trying to present a complete Commission whose members must be accepted by the EU Parliament. Two candidates were rejected by the majority of EU Parliamentarians at the end of […]

1. Introduction The number of independent countries in the world has increased from 74 in 1945 to 195 in 2018. This was driven by the dissolution of colonial empires, the breakup of the USSR and secession throughout the world (Muro and Woertz 2018, p.11). In the field of international relations, a secession is defined as […]

Introduction Critics and Eurosceptics claim that the decision-making process of the European Union involves little more than groups of elitist bureaucrats gathering in secret meetings and plotting their latest methods to erode the national sovereignty of the EU’s member states, with the ultimate aim of concentrating power in their hands. Defenders of the EU paint […]