VLADAN LAUSEVIC During 2015 and the large refugee and humanitarian situation between Europe and Asia, Sweden accepted around 160 000 refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants from other parts of the world such as Syria and Afghanistan. After that, Sweden became a
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Coming Out Day 2021
THERESA ZETTL Coming Out Day is celebrated by gays, lesbians, and transgender people on 11 October 2021. On this day, people all over the world are called upon to come out as a gay man or lesbian woman, for example,
Read moreWorld Mental Health Day – Fight the stigma!
THERESA ZETTL Today is World Mental Health Day. But what is mental health? Mental health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a state of well-being in which an individual can realize his or her own potential, cope
Read moreWorld Animal Day
On October 4th, we celebrate World Animal Day. It is charged with the mission to raise awareness to the status of animals to improve their welfare standards worldwide. Already in 1931, the World Animal Day was introduced at a convention
Read moreHow Socialism’s Crippling Experiment Still Echoes Through Germany Today
BY DANIEL KADDIK This article was originally written for Fundación Bases (Rosario – Argentina) to commemorate a new anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. It was first published in Panampost in 2016. Daniel Kaddik is Executive Director at
Read moreHistorical events for the LGBTQIA+ Community
THERESA ZETTL This weekend has been a great, successful weekend for the LGBTQIA+ Community:By a clear majority, the people of Switzerland have voted in favour of marriage equality in a referendum.Germany has its first two Transgender Members of Parliament after
Read moreBisexuality day, 23 september
TINA BEDNAR Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behaviour toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or
Read moreItaly at the crossroads between restart and populism
EMANUELE LOMBARDINI The great electoral race in Italy has begun. Of course, there is still a year and a half ahead, because the legislature should end in March 2023, but Italy certainly does not have a tradition in this sense:
Read moreEU Law: two different types of direct effect
LIANNA MELKEER AMIRKHANYAN As it is known, the EU Law is Supreme. It is also confusing, in terms of when it comes to the Individuals, and the principles of Direct effect explain this confusion more precisely. The EU has 2
Read more9/11 War against terror
HELDER ALVARES It’s very common people asking where you were on September 11. I remember clearly that date because I was working at a hospital and somehow and I saw the images on a TV screen, but I was so
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