Bitcoin has long held the status of number one cryptocurrency. Since its launch in 2009, individual investors and big corporations alike have stocked up on the digital token. However, the world has since awoken to the sustainability and energy consumption issues around the mining and trading process. Lately, even Elon Musk, one of the most
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COVID-19 left the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese authorities with little choice but to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games originally planned to be kicked off last July. 11.000 Olympic athletes, 4.400 Paralympic athletes, and 80.000 unpaid volunteers were significantly affected as one of the most prestigious sporting events was forced to
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The second wave of toilet paper hoarding hit Australia in late June, and purchase limits were reintroduced in the country’s biggest supermarket chains. However, life is slowly starting to pick up its pace again in Melbourne and the entire state of Victoria after one of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns of nearly four months. Melbourne,
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Along with other countries, Bangladesh went into a nationwide lockdown to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the end of March. The country’s version of lockdown has been quite controversial, as garment factories resumed operations despite the drastic measures taken elsewhere in society. As Rumi, one of the 4.1 million textile workers, puts it: “Police and
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Religious violence between the Hindu majority and the Muslim minority in India reached its worst for decades at the end of February. More than 50 people died, and thousands were injured in Delhi, mainly Muslims, as a consequence of massive violence in the capital. In four days in the north-east of Delhi, many mosques, Muslim
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A brief look into his background Cas Mudde was born on June 3rd, 1967 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He completed his Master’s degree in 1993 and gained his Ph.D. in 1998 both in Political Science at Leiden University. Mudde continued his career around Europe, holding tenure-related positions at Central European University in Hungary, the University
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Greta Thunberg, a 16 years old girl from Sweden, has taken the world by storm. In one year, she has grown from an unknown and lonely schoolgirl protesting in front of the Swedish parliament house into a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated climate activist. She has reached vast numbers of followers on social media, over 7.6 million
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Have you ever waited at the airport passport control queue on holiday and thought of skipping the line as a local resident? Do you dream of leaving all the stress behind and starting a new life under palm trees and endless sun in the Caribbean? Alternatively, would you hope for better study and employment opportunities
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A few years back the world had all eyes on Finland – a Nordic country regularly popping on top of rankings, for example being the happiest country in 2018 and 2019 by the United Nations. However, the rankings were not the reasons behind the attention. Above all, the Finnish centre-right government, led by prime minister
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