Blog – Political education
Here you can find our current articles from our department for political education. In addition to articles on the subject “On This Day in History”, you can find everything about political education here. If you have your own suggestions, comments or ideas for projects, please contact politik@asta.rwth-aachen.de.
On this Day in History: Paris Agreement comes into effect
On this day exactly five years ago, on November 4 2016, the Paris Agreement came into effect. Back in 2015, 55 countries responsible for at least 55 percent of greenhouse gases had agreed on the treaty at the UN Climate Change Conference. In the Paris Agreement are,...
On This day in History: End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Never had the world come so close to nuclear war
On This day in History: The Bundestag in Berlin for the first time
On this day 66 years ago... the German Bundestag met for the first time in West Berlin. The session was held for the first time on October 19th in 1955 as a sign of solidarity with West Berlin and its citizens in a temporary meeting room at the TU Berlin. The MPs also...
On this day in history: Terrorist attacks of September 11
Today, 20 years ago, nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11 in the United States. For the first time in its history, NATO decides to invoke the alliance and goes to war alongside the USA. Its target: Afghanistan. Civil war has been raging...
World Nature Conservation Day
Today is World Nature Conservation Day! In the spirit of protecting natural habitats and resources, this day is dedicated to raising awareness about the environment. With projects such as the Sustainability Week, campus greening and the active commitment to more...
On this day in history: Austrian ultimatum to Serbia in the July crisis
107 years ago today, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy issued an ultimatum to Serbia in response to the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, which had been committed by a Bosnian Serb on June 28, 1914. Serbia had been held responsible for the...
On this day in history: Nummerus Clausus
Today, 49 years ago, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court's) "Numerus Clausus" ruling had a massive impact on the allocation procedure for student admission in Germany. In the years before the ruling, the number of people with university entrance...
On this day in history: Abortion Act 1995
On June 29, 1995, exactly 26 years ago, the German Bundestag passed the new abortion law. Since that day, a woman who performs an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy remains unpunished. The conditions for this are that the abortion must be performed by...
On this day in history: East German uprising of 1953
68 years ago today, large sections of the German Democratic Republic's citizens went on strike in protest against an increase in working hours, which was intended to rebuild the state's ailing finances. This went down in the history books as the June 17 Uprising....
On this day in history: End of the Congress of Vienna
206 years ago today, the Congress of Vienna ended with the signing of the Congress Act by the participants. The Congress had been in session since 18.09.1814 and had aimed to reorganize Europe, as its political landscape had changed considerably over the course of...