Dear Reader,

We are delighted for you to now be holding the third edition of the EuroMUN x Maastricht Diplomat x UNSA Marketing collaboration in your hands, and as the old adage goes, third time‘s the charm! But, how are we to sow the seeds of tomorrow if not by looking back at our fruitful past?

The first collaboration is a product of the COVID years, a time when in person conferences had been replaced with tedious online sessions, the MD was forced out of the comfort of students trying to get their hands on our printed editions and Marketing had nothing but our Social Media to design for. Thus, in the spirit of the UNSA family, and to provide all EuroMUN delegates with a tangible memento whilst putting the MD and UNSA Marketing staff to work on an actual print, this collaboration was born. And within the blink of an eye, or rather the wait for a negative rapid test result, after two years of cancelled or online gatherings we finally got to reunite in our beautiful Maastricht. Last year’s team crafted a beautiful printed edition and we got to cherish seeing first-hand how our hard work was consumed by delegates all around the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Alas, let us no longer dwell on the pandemic, an era hopefully only to be remembered by a scares mask every now and again and take joy in wandering the cobblestone streets of Maastricht on your way to debate united under one theme:

“Sowing Seeds of Stability to Harvest the Solutions of Tomorrow”

Much like your committee sessions, this magazine hopes to sow seeds, perhaps not in stability, but instead curiosity, passion and desire for knowledge and even to affect lasting change. Delightfully, the pages of the printed edition are not confined to your committee and topic, but give you the full range of EuroMUN 2023 and thus may pique your inte- rest more than once. However you may choose to pursue the seedlings EuroMUN, UNSA Marketing and the Maastricht Diplomat have planted within you, we look forward to witness how you will ensure a democratic European Union – with or without the physical Euro, protect the rights of the stateless, reproductive organs and detainees, or tackle long standing international tensions such as the militarization in the Arctic or the conflict surrounding Taiwan.

We would like to extend our personal thanks to the hardworking teams of the EuroMUN, the Marketing Team of UNSA as well as the writers of the Maastricht Diplomat, as without any of these people and their tireless effort and commitment this printed edition would not be in your hands right now. The Maastricht Diplomat writers team would like to bring attention to the fact that given the constraints of this print the articles have been shortened, but the extended versions will be available digitally.

Happy reading! 

Krithik Medwin Rock Secretary General of EurMUN 2023

Juliane Hilgert Editor in Chief of the Maastricht Diplomat

Helena Eckstein Art Director & Head of Marketing