av Erik Carlqvist ALMEDALSVECKAN I VISBY är en tillställning utöver det vanliga. Ledande svenska aktörer inom politik, näringsliv, forskning och civilsamhälle samlas i den medeltida staden på Gotland för att diskutera, debattera, och övertyga lyssnare om sina hjärtefrågor. Visby förvandlas under en vecka till en debatt- och kunskapscentral, och gatorna…
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By Quentin Machado Uttryck Magazine, in collaboration with Radio UF, interviewed two weeks ago Dr. Namira Negm on the state of affairs between Israel and Palestine. Former Legal Counsel of the African Union, notably defending Palestine before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), she delivered, thanks to her extensive experience,…
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By Sofiane Marceau El Banine 2024 IS A PIVOTAL YEAR. Never before have so many elections taken place at the same time, especially in such a context of uncertainty and radicality. All over the world, tensions arise between countries that recover the idea of empire and hegemony to lead their…
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By Bénédicte Poirot Essayist, journalist, political advisor, MEP, how Raphaël Glucksmann hopes to win votes by doing “everything at once”. Raphaël Glucksmann, the man Raphaël Glucksmann is the leader of the French Socialist Party list for the 2024 European Election. The strategy put forward by the candidate is to get…
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By Tekle Makashvili and Salome Berdzenishvili “PEOPLE’S RIVER will never stop flowing, flowing from the country’s heart,” reads the long fabric banner on the streets, protesting the Russian regime in Tbilisi, Georgia. The country, situated in the Caucasus, has been independent for more than thirty turbulent years since the collapse…
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By Ambassador René Nyberg René Nyberg, former Finnish Ambassador to Vienna, Moscow and Berlin, expert in Nordic security and well acquainted with the Soviet-Russian diplomatic milieu, addressed the following speech during the Ambassador Brunch held the 20th May of 2024 by the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs at the Uppsala…
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The UF Uppsala Travel Group, together with UPF Växjö, visited Oslo and its surroundings in May 2024. They provided Uttryck with some insights from their weekend. WE ARRIVED in Oslo at noon on Friday, ready to explore the city. After we checked in to our hostel, we went to visit…
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The UF Travel Group visited Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in April 2024. They provided Uttryck with the journal of their adventures. AFTER A LONG DAY of travelling and a night spent on the aeroplane, we arrived in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. As many of us were tired, we decided to…
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By Erik Carlqvist THE WORLD IN 2024 is far from stable. With multiple ongoing conflicts, violations of international law and norms, and democratic decline, the future seems uncertain. In these respects, Taiwan; the non-recognized, de facto independent democracy in East Asia awakes interest and can be seen as a main…
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By Gabriele Scalise Keeping it real AS THE MONTHS GO BY, I find myself walking the streets of Brussels in the morning, alongside thousands of others dressed in business casual and headed for either an EU job, a lobby or an NGO. Click-clack-click-clack. Here and there, when the sunrays hit…
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