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  • Amidst the complaints about lack of productivity and switch to online education, I feel almost guilty to say that I also enjoy my new corona-induced working reality. Well, I would not consciously choose to combine work with childcare. As for the rest, my work satisfaction has actually improved. I...

  • On Saturday 16 of April an earthquake struck Ecuador. At 7.8 on the Richter scale, it levelled various towns of the province of Manabí, in particular Pedernales, Manta and Portoviejo. At current estimates, it has killed more than 500 persons. Many of them died a slow death, after days of being...

  • Refugee crisis and migration may obviously have a lot of different sources. The current refugee crisis in Europe is obviously strongly related to the war in Syria. However, quite often migration and hence a stream of refugees, can also be caused by natural disasters, even by climate change. Some...

  • On 24 January, the Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government, following the mandate of the Head of State, approved the Law-Decree that foresees the suspension of Articles 12, 14, 15, 16 and 18 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of Spaniards   (Fuero de los españoles). For a period of three...