Month: December 2015
Staying below 2°C: The implications of the Paris Agreement for the Netherlands
Are you enjoying your Christmas holidays? If you are in the Netherlands you will probably have noticed by now: no white Christmas this year. In fact, this is the warmest
Read MoreBB-8 Star Wars Droid
The Star Wars series encouraged the public’s increasing desire to have a robot in the house. Imagine this: a small, round object that moves in your living room, answers your
Read MoreWidening or Closing the Window of Opportunity?..
EU-Ukraine Association Agreement – What It Brings to Europeans, Dutch, and Ukrainians The referendum on the approval of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine will be held
Read MoreChecks Presents the Three Ultimate Christimas Gifts
Dear faithful Checks Community, Twelve days left until Christmas, but obviously we could not care less about Christmas, this commercialised and old-fogyish tradition of giving and receiving presents – so materialistic –
Read MoreThe Man Who Turned Fiction Into Reality?
-An article on Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission and a changing France- Paris, the night of the 6th of January 2015. Michel Houellebecq, enfant-terrible of the French literary world, is sitting in
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