June 2025

Mental Health and Gun Law, A Brief Reflection on the Graz Shooting Case

The vicious school shooting in BORG Gymnasium in Graz on 10 June 2025 which claimed 11 lives, has undoubtedly cast a suffocating shadow over Austria’s peaceful, tranquil, and safe image. When the headlines of the world’s media point to the territory of this small, politically neutral country, not because of its music and art, or landscape and hidden champions, but terrorist incidents, how big is the challenge it is facing? One can discuss about the campus culture in the Austrian secondary schools, where the relationship between the pupils as well as that of between pupils and teachers has always been…


Brief News Review

On 4. June, the US government’s doubling of tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports to 50% for the EU came into effect. Meanwhile, the Trump administration sought “best offers” from trading partners to avoid other punishing import levies from taking effect in July. Representatives from both sides came together in Paris, trying to reach some agreement.  The 27-nation EU’s trade negotiator, Maros Sefcovic, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said their meeting in Paris was constructive. Greer said the talks demonstrated “a willingness by the EU to work with us to find a concrete way forward to achieve reciprocal…