By Rediet Degefa In early April of 2018, Austria’s conservative government proposed a bill that will prohibit Muslim girls under the age of 10 from wearing headscarves (hijab) in schools. The bill is called “The Child Protection Law” and the goal is to protect the Austrian mainstream culture from the influences of the Islamic culture. […]
By Kelly Beach It has been over a year since Americans took to the voting booths and cast their ballots in the 2016 presidential election. For Germany, it has only been a matter of weeks, as their most recent elections occurred on September 24, 2017. The German democratic election process is very different than how […]
By Michael Cebert The events that unfolded throughout the autonomous Spanish region of Catalonia during the October 1 independence referendum were shocking and polarizing. Spanish riot police of the Guardia Civil, under the mission codenamed Operation Anubis, stormed polling stations in Barcelona, Girona, Tarragona and other Catalan locales in order to prevent the “illegal” independence […]
By Kelly Beach On June 23, 2016, Britain formally voted to leave the European Union. To undertake this process, however, is not as simple as writing declaration to that effect, and despite Britain’s claim to newfound autonomy, the country still exists in a limbo, as their economy and politics are still very much entwined with […]
by Kelly Beach in Mockern, Germany Few international topics have received as much attention in the past months as the Syrian refugee situation. The crisis in Syria reached a boiling point in 2011, as religious and ethnic factions took arms against each other and the government in a devastating civil war. Hundreds of thousands of […]
by Colin Pummel From 1945 to the late 1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a global conflict that became the Cold War. This period saw huge advancements in technology, and was in part responsible for the massive cultural change that occurred in response to such innovations as the Internet, as […]
by Kelly Beach The United Kingdom has a plan to issue a referendum by the end of 2017 that will decide they will sever their bonds with their fellow Europeans. The issue of European Union (EU) membership has been controversial and stretches all the way back to 1973 when Britain joined the European Economic Community (EEC). […]