Political essays by Yunus Poblome
The Analytic Hour hosts my writings as a student of politics. The platform shares the name of Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic sessions of psychoanalysis.
This was a short talk on the EU’s role in financially assisting Ukraine considering the ongoing Russian invasion. It was presented by Sebastian Clapp and Tim Peters, policy experts in the EPRS. An executive summary written by Tim Peters1 states three important aspects of EU policy on the issue. The first being that Ukraine’s recovery…
Waar rechts én links fout gaan. Woke dit, woke dat, woke hier, woke daar… Ik denk dat meeste mensen dat woord absoluut beu zijn gehoord. Toch staat de media en -vooral rechtse- retoriek er vol mee. Met dank aan -onder andere- Bart De Wever en Tom Lanoye is het onderwerp nu ook in de Belgische…
Het concept van onderwijs op een massale schaal vormt al jaren een grote bron van vragen en discussieonderwerpen voor mij. Een aantal van mijn vroegste herinneringen zijn van mijn grootvader en moeder hun verhalen over hun eigen schoolleven in het Turkije van de 20ste eeuw. Wat me vooral bijbleef van die verhalen was hoe een…
I recently travelled between Brussels and Istanbul as a last-minute impulsive trip to visit my grandmother. A two-way flight that I have grown quite familiar with over the years. However, I did feel that this time around I started noticing aspects of air travel that I hadn’t before. It was especially the strange environment that…
This text was written as part of a week long simulation of the European Parliament at the end of which it was my task to deliver a speech. Our committee was dealing with policy solutions surrounding climate change and pollution. However dramatic as 17-year-old me tended to be, it still holds true with my current…