Written by Mats van den Boogert Two months ago I was sitting in my municipality’s civil administration office, waiting for my number to be shown on one of the many screens in the large waiting hall. I was there with my expired passport and other required documents to request aContinue Reading
By Albion Tusha The notion of state is there to protect each and every one of us. However, it has not always been like that. For thousands of years, the state has been, very simply put, an organization that extorted the lower classes. To think of that today, especially inContinue Reading
By Joanna Sowińska While most people would suggest that states are the simplest entity to describe how the world functions, the use of the word state can be sometimes confusing because of its debated meaning. Today, the United Nations system counts 193 sovereign member states, from which 187 have noContinue Reading