Merkel, Schulz and Poland - What can we expect post-September?
“A guided democracy à la Putin”, “a dangerous Putinisation of European politics”, “developments in Poland have coup character” – these...
An (A)typical Election - France 2017
Last week, one of the main French newspapers Le Parisien announced it would stop commissioning polls in the run-up to the French...
Trying to Understand – Opinions from around the World on Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism
It has been a week since Donald Trump became president elect of the United States of America. Since then many have voiced their “shock...
The In-credible Donald Trump
Anyone’s news feed for the past 48 hours has been a stream of shock, despair, anger and click-bait with a side of memes. Quite frankly it...
#MakeAmericaGreatAgain -By not Voting for Trump
At the age of 18, I carried out my duties as a responsible citizen and proudly cast my first vote in the 2008 presidential elections for...
The Aftermath – One day after Germany’s "Landtagswahlen"
Until yesterday 5:59 pm I was mainly shocked by how many US-Americans seem to envisage Donald Trump as the only possible option for...
