COVID-19 Vaccination in Belgium: Health first
QUENTIN GENARD More than 37% of adults living in Belgium got at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine (and 11.5% are fully vaccinated). Belgium is…
EUelections 2019: Elections in Belgium – towards another world record?
QUENTIN GENARD Belgium is known over the world for fries, chocolate and the intricacy of its political system. It looks as if the country might…
EUelections 2019: A View from Finland
VILHELMIINA VULKKO In the 751-seated European Parliament, Finland has only 13 seats. As a result of the last European elections, held on 26th of May,…
“Spanish Sudoku”: The Long and Troubled Road Towards New Elections
NICCOLÒ QUERCI The last Spanish general election was held on Sunday 20 December 2015. More than 120 days have passed and yet, Spain still doesn’t have a government. Since…
175 Parties Signed the Paris Agreement. What’s Next?
QUENTIN GENARD On Friday April 22nd, 2016, representatives from 175 parties (the European Commission signed on behalf of the EU) gathered in New-York to sign the Paris Agreement…
View from Warsaw: Security and Selective Solidarity
MARTA MKOWSKA * The attacks in Brussels might have added another brick into Poland’s wall against the refugees. Recent opinion polls show that 70 percent now…
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Sukuk jako alternatywny instrument finansów publicznych – doświadczenia tureckie
MEHMET MURAT COBANOGLU, AYSE NUR AYDIN (for English version scroll down) Sukuk (muzułmańska odmiana obligacji) uchodzi za jeden z najbardziej popularnych muzułmańskich instrumentów finansowych. Produkt ten cieszy się…
It’s not about Merkel’s power – it’s about Europe!
THOMAS BEHRENS Being in power for a decade now, Angela Merkel at the beginning of 2016 is characterized by German newspapers as Chancellor desperately under pressure,…
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Interest-free banking – a new alternative?
CIM Although Islamic banking and finance (IBF) is definitely not an innovation in the strict sense of the word (its roots reach VII century), it is…
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(Wielki) powrót waqfs
KATARZYNA SIDŁO (for English version scroll down) Instrumenty typu waqfs (lub po arabsku awqaf) są wykorzystywane na terytoriach muzułmańskich niemal od początku istnienia Islamu (uważa się,…