When Berlin’s minister for the interior presented the 2002 police statistics, he introduced a new feature: from then, the statistics differentiated between German and non-German offenders and as in youth criminality there was always a difference between these two groups, this decision appeared to be very sensible. In 2005, one in eight …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded in 1947 with the target to stabilize currencies and avoid economic crises. The way this is done is to give credits to states which are getting into financial problems, so that the economy is strengthened. Since the East-Asia crisis in 1998, which were at least partly caused by the narrow-m …

Do our prejudices of the “Bible Belt” in America differ from the present reality in the United States?

When I decided to spend my exchange year in Oklahoma I was not aware of entering a region which is informally called “The Bible Belt”. So shortly before my departure I collected some information about the people I was going to stay wi …