The Netherlands is a country that is known for being a welfare state. It is evident with the statistics results- it is having one of the lowest income inequality in the European Union (EU). Several benefits are provided to the citizens so that they could live a respectable livelihood. However,
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ALEXEI NAVALNY: CRITIC OF KREMLIN
On 2nd February 2021, Alexei Navalny was sentenced to a penal colony for two years and eight months by a Moscow court. [1] On 5th February, he was again summoned to court, where he was charged for insulting a war veteran. [2] However, the 2nd February verdict was enough for the
BOSNIA MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS 2020: FIRST LOCAL VOTE IN 12 YEARS
After 12 years, Municipal elections in Mostar, Bosnia have taken place whereby nationalists parties is believed will win a landslide victory. The city embodies hatred of the conflict that led to widespread mass killing. The leaders of today from these parties are campaigning on the lines of bread and butter
ITALIAN POLITICS: FALLOUT OF ITALY’S GOVERNMENT
After months of instability in Italian politics, Italy’s government finally collapsed on 13th January 2021. Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi withdrew his small party Italia Viva’s support. This move has put the country in a difficult political situation as the government is now short of a parliamentary majority. However, the
3 MAJOR EFFECTS OF BREXIT ON THE MIDDLE EAST
Gone are the days when it was believed that the sun never sat on the British Empire. The United Kingdom today maintains a landmass only a fraction of the size of its Empire, and in the last few decades, specifically, after the second world war, has been overshadowed by economic
GENESIS OF THE GREECE-TURKEY CONFLICT
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949 with the sole aim of ensuring security and to safeguard its alliance’s protection through military mechanisms. In the present scenario, NATO has not been able to counter the regional conflict that is emerging between countries, Greece and Turkey. The membership
RADICAL ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS IN FRANCE AND ANTI-FRANCE PROTESTS
Terror struck France once again after a series of Islamist terror attacks that took place in October 2020. First, a history professor, Mr Samuel Paty was decollated near Paris by a young Chechen man, after he showed cartoon images of Prophet Mohammad wearing a bomb instead of a turban, in
BREAKING DOWN THE HISTORY OF THE KOSOVO CRISIS
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was a special occasion with heavyweights like France, Brazil and Portugal participating but it was this one particular match between two teams who had no chance of winning which was being talked about the most. In the group stage, Switzerland and Serbia were to play
EUROPE: EAST, WEST AND THE GULF BETWEEN
The eastern and western half of Europe have a huge gap in the socio-economic sphere. East European countries are plagued by the lack of a social security contract leading to high social inequalities, strong social disintegration, egotistic individualism and extensive destitution and poverty. There has been minuscule progress in addressing
NORDIC ECONOMIC MODEL – IS THE GRASS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE?
At the time when the world’s richest 1% own 44% of the wealth and the lowest 56.6% people own less than 2% of the global wealth (source), many of the scholars, economists, politicians and policymakers are looking for ways to remedy the situation. In this backdrop, the Scandinavian countries of