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by Sevim Dagdelen*
(15 August 2025) If a capital city is the place where the most important political decisions are made, then it must be said that 21st-century Europe appears to have three capitals: Ramstein, Wiesbaden and Turnberry in Scotland.
by Robert Seidel*
(8 August 2025) In politics, there is a common tactic for avoiding objective debate: labelling your opponent as “strange” or even “inhuman”. This allows you to impose things on them without having to address the issue itself. However, to justify wars, more devious techniques are implemented. Otherwise, hardly anyone would carry out the barbaric acts of war that are expected from them. Certainly not if you end up getting hurt yourself, or perhaps your wife, son, daughter ...
by Michael Felten*
(8 August 2025) The Intercantonal University of Special Education Zurich (HfH) has made a remarkable shift in its approach to inclusion. It now states in one of its guiding principles on inclusion: “The goal is for all children and young people to learn together. If special needs cannot be met in an inclusive setting, separate or partially separate measures may be appropriate.”1
by Felix Abt*
(08 August 2025) This week, Vietnam celebrates the 50th anniversary of its reunification and independence. Here are some thoughts that are important in the current geopolitical environment.
Media release UNICEF*
(08 August 2025) Gaza faces the severe risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the conflict began, according to data shared in the latest “Integrated Food Security Phase Classification” (IPC) Alert.**
by Marlen Simeon,* Switzerland
(18 July 2025) (CH-S) Eighty years ago, on 6 and 9 August 1945, American atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The horror grips everyone who contemplates the consequences of these acts – the suffering is incomprehensible. It is also incomprehensible that today, the use of atomic bombs is being considered again.