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Welcome to the VDS Journal! Here you can find all the VDS International Hour publications. Since 2018, we have been engaging Venetian students and our readers with topics that interest them the most. From politics and international relations, to economics and human rights, our team is passionate about providing a wide range of articles for you to stay informed.

Greta Bordin

Apr 14, 20217 min read

Ambitions in Myanmar

Russia supports the regime established by Myanmar's Armed Forces to deepen bilateral ties.

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Giulia Grandin

Apr 11, 20215 min read

The Digital Green Certificate a.k.a. Vaccination Passport - where are we at?

“We need the Digital Green Certificate to re-establish our confidence in the Schengen zone while continuing to fight the COVID-19...

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Greta Bordin

Apr 7, 20214 min read

The Northern Sea Route

The Ever Given crisis is the perfect opportunity for Russia to promote the Northern Sea Route

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The hidden actors in European Politics: MEPs’ assistants

Giulia Grandin and Annelien Zaal

Mar 31, 20215 min read

The hidden actors in European Politics: MEPs’ assistants

MEPs' assistant are quite far from our common image of a personal assistant: let's discover them

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Ludovico Campagnolo

Mar 30, 20213 min read

The Libertarian Party

The US is known as a strictly bipolar party system, but at its margins we find a third party with different views: The Libertarian Party

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Ludovico Campagnolo

Mar 30, 20213 min read

Vaccine Autarchy

The discrepancies in the distribution of vaccines among countries have become a trivial topic in European Union

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Greta Bordin

Mar 24, 20213 min read

“You think he’s a killer?”

“So you know Vladimir Putin. You think he's a killer?” “Mmm-hmm, I do.”

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Russian foreign policy in the Middle East

Greta Bordin

Mar 18, 20214 min read

Russian foreign policy in the Middle East

Russian involvement in the Middle East has a long history: let's discover it

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What's up in the European Parliament? The conference on the future of Europe

Giulia Grandin

Mar 15, 20214 min read

What's up in the European Parliament? The conference on the future of Europe

The Declaration on the Conference on the Future of Europe leads the way for EU citizens to contribute to the future of Europe.

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The European Union negotiates new sanctions against Russia

Greta Bordin

Mar 10, 20213 min read

The European Union negotiates new sanctions against Russia

A response to the arrest of Alexei Navalny

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Women in the European Union Institutions

Camilla Castelanelli

Mar 8, 20212 min read

Women in the European Union Institutions

Let’s try to grasp how women are represented in the European Union Institutions

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What’s up in the European Parliament? A Need for democratic scrutiny of social media platforms?

Giulia Grandin

Mar 1, 20213 min read

What’s up in the European Parliament? A Need for democratic scrutiny of social media platforms?

After Trump's ban from the Social Media, European Legislators are asking a greater European public control on such matters.

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Giulia Grandin

Feb 22, 20213 min read

European ethics body

The so-called "revolving door", where EU politicians pass from EU institutions to the private sector has become a great concern for the EU.

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EU-UK Relations Post Brexit: A Troublesome Divorce

Camilla Castelanelli

Feb 22, 20213 min read

EU-UK Relations Post Brexit: A Troublesome Divorce

The situation between EU and UK still entails several unsettled issues. But why is that? Let’s delve more deeply into the problematic areas.

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Ludovico Campagnolo

Feb 17, 20213 min read

The Last Trump Supporters

With the electoral defeats and the storming of the Capitol building plummeting his approval rate, Trump has left the White House as one...

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Mars’ colonization: bigger needs at hand?

Oleksandr Seredyuk

Feb 9, 20212 min read

Mars’ colonization: bigger needs at hand?

Living on Mars, while extremely exciting and ambitious, could be a huge far cry from what we have here.

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What’s up in the European Parliament? The need for democratic scrutiny of social media

Giulia Grandin

Jan 3, 20213 min read

What’s up in the European Parliament? The need for democratic scrutiny of social media

After Trump's ban from the Social Media, European Legislators are asking a greater European public control on such matters.

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Sara Dal Monico

Apr 29, 202010 min read

VeUMEU 2018

This is not supposed to be neither one of those articles describing the simulation, or the skills of the participants. With ‘this is not...

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UNESCO water equity and the Middle East case- part 1

Chiara Palmisano

Apr 29, 20203 min read

UNESCO water equity and the Middle East case- part 1

UNESCO Venice. Symposium on Water equity in South-East Europe and the Mediterranean.

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Nadia Dalla Gasperina

Apr 28, 20203 min read

Roma children education in Albania

Despite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that education should be free and compulsory, reality is often different.

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