Europe in Crisis: As part of their 10-year anniversary, Room for Discussion have reserved the month of October to debating institutions in crisis. This week, they invited Neelie Kroes to talk about the current state of the European Union and some of its pressing problems. As a follow-up to our Sunday article, here are some
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I decided to study economics when I was sixteen years old. Back then I did not know much about the subject, and although I am already in the second year of my bachelors, I must admit that I still know very little about it. Sure, now I understand terms like inflation, monopoly, and depreciation. But
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By definition, authoritarianism is  “the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.” I consider this definition particularly incomplete. The definition misses the most important part at the end: “for a certain reason“. Mao Zedong explicitly stated “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is
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Neelie Kroes is, in short, a woman of power. Born in 1941 in Rotterdam, she is a Dutch and European politician for the liberal VVD party. Being said to have broken every glass ceiling, she was former European Commissioner for Competition and Digital Agenda (2004-2014), first female underminister at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works
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On Wednesday October 3rd, you maybe had the chance to attend Carles Puigdemont’s interview held by Room for Discussion. Talking with the two interviewers, he explained that it was undoubtedly difficult to live away from his native country and his family, but he made one thing clear: he still feels at home in Belgium, because
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Shareholder activism is on the rise again and hedge funds are re-entering the game.
Why are the hedge funds engaging in expensive proxy fights and why are companies’ CEOs fighting back so furiously? Read the article to discover more.
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