With a population of almost 1.2 billion people, 1.2 million square miles, and more than 1000 different languages, India truly is a unique country. A country that many people are aware of, but don’t really know what’s really going on. This article aims to explain how India has become the country it is now, and
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Since the last couple of months, there has hardly a day gone by during which Hong Kong and its political crisis were not mentioned in the news. Roughly over the last six months, this vibrant city has been the showplace of rising tensions between the government and its citizens. In this article, I will briefly
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Many of us are probably familiar with the saying “A camera never lies” or “A picture tells more than a 1000 words”. These sayings, as true as they once were, might not be as accurate in the world we live in today. Technologies such as Adobe Photoshop enable everyone with a computer and some
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If you could not attend the Room for Discussion event on the 6th of March: “Understanding Brexit”, but still want to know what it was all about, you have come to the right place. Below you can find a very quick summary about what will be the implications of how Europe might develop after the
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Who doesn’t know how annoying it can be when you want to read an article, but you first have to pay for access to it or advertisements that appear while you are in the middle of watching a YouTube video. This does also apply for music, movies, apps, and so forth, and has been becoming
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The housing crisis is a topic we have been hearing about for a long time, and it seems to get worse every year. With ever-increasing urbanization, that is, the tendency to move away from the countryside into cities supplying housing for these growing numbers becomes a bigger problem for private and public organizations. It is
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Since the beginning of the 1950’s China’s population exploded. Starting from roughly 500 million, the number of inhabitants almost tripled to 1.4 billion people. Putting it into perspective, this is more than North America, Australia, and Europe combined have. Policy makers in the 1970`s knew that this strong economic growth will lead to an overpopulation
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This Friday (16th November 2018), Room for Discussion will hold an interview about the future of a single currency in the European Union. Daniel Gros (Director of the Centre of European Policy Studies) and Enrico Perotti (Professor of International Finance) will be interviewed to help us understand the current political climate in the EU, as
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In recent years a lot of effort and money has been invested in finding alternatives to fossil fuels, such as solar- or wind power, but until now this is unfortunately still only the peak of the iceberg considering that even in Europe energy consumption from renewable sources contributes 17% to the total energy needed. Located
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