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Originally from Helsinki, Maria Taskinen is currently based in Amsterdam where she is finishing her studies in Political Science. She enjoys long conversations and learning about different perspectives. While professionally interested in EU and environmental policy she sometimes considers taking another path and becoming a documentarist.

The heartwarming power of cooperatives

E&M author Maria Taskinen shares her thoughts on cooperatives and an experience with a ...

Tourism in Karelia. The collateral damages of the closed border

Finnish Karelia, a region in Eastern Finland, has for long had an established tourism ...

Is there green in blue? Finnish elections and climate policy

E&M Author and editor Maria Taskinen reflects on Finland’s last month’s election result and ...

Nuclear energy in the EU taxonomy: The good, the bad or the ugly?

Few topics split EU member states as much as the discussion on whether nuclear ...

poster calling to free Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition – EU complacency?

6th Sense Staff Writer Maria Taskinen explores what the blacklisting of Alexei Navalny’s political ...

photo of seats in parliament - most likely to be filled by a third of women in politics

Women in parliament: The everlasting ‘one-third’

Women make up half of Europe’s population, yet less than half of Europe’s parliamentarians ...