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…

This text was part of an excercise for a course on International Relations Theory taught by professor Jonathan Holslag at the VUB. The task was to analyse an article1 on a decision taken by the Belgian federal government to put wind turbines in the North Sea. The discussion around climate change has become this elusive…

Dit essay is geschreven in 2021 en is wat verouderd op vlak van mijn eigen politieke meningen, maar het dient als een soort anker om weer te geven waar mijn gedachtengoed in genesteld zit. Vandaag ben ik meer genuanceerd, maar veel van de scherpe meningen hieronder houden nogsteeds stand binnen mijn huidig denken. Als een…