Ilyas Mardin

Europe

Hypezig: Leipzig as the New Place to be?

Thirty years ago, Leipzig was in a sorry state. In stark contrast to what the German Democratic Republic (GDR) regime pushed through propaganda, a documentary [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Ks_epzmRY] broadcasted on television depicting a derelict city crumbling to pieces shocked both Germans and the world.

Education

We've Had ENAugh: The Decline of France's Political Finishing School

Emmanuel Macron. François Hollande. Jacques Chirac. What do three of the past four French presidents, a centrist, a leftist and a conservative, have in common? They were all educated at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), a French postgraduate school widely considered a pathway to the upper echelons [https://en.