Dear recipient of the Maastricht Debates email announcements,

At the end of the 2009-2010 program of Maastricht Debates, we like to get your feedback. This will help us in preparing the program for next year. Thanks for answering 6 questions: click here to take the survey.

Huub Mudde
Coordinator

Review of May 23 debate

The journalistic review with pictures of the event with Boekestijn and Edinger is now online. The final edition for the academic year of 2009-2010 looked at the roles of the EU and the BRIC-countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) in the global economy, and more specifically at their approach to development cooperation in Africa. More...

Next year: Cities

Half of humanity now lives in cities, and within two decades, nearly 60 per cent of the world’s people will be urban dwellers. That may be in new cities, small cities, or mega cities. Within these cities, almost 40 per cent lives in slums, equals almost 1 billion people. Enough reasons for Maastricht Debates to focus in the academic year of 2010-2011 on Cities. 

The first event is on Wednesday October 6, co-organised by the Maastricht Municipality. The title is: Urban connections, Powered by Maastricht, and deals with regional cooperation, being economic, socially and in physical infrastructure.