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Youth Without Work
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Among the many devastating effects of the current global financial crisis, one of the most pernicious in the developed world is the upward trajectory of the unemployment rate for youth, which rose by six percentage points in the OECD area from 2007 t...
Youth work and EU 2020 flagship initiative Youth on the move
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Yesterday we witnessed the deplorable state of the EU Commission’s central website for the Europe 2020 strategy, in the blog entry EU 2020 website and Youth on the move: Nul points ! Luckily, the picture is not all black. The Belgian presidency of...
EU 2020 website and Youth on the move: Nul points !
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The Europe 2020 strategy is the raison d’être of the Barroso II Commission, so preparation and communication of the seven flagship initiatives must be highly visible, and they have to go hand in hand. Is this theory or practice? Youth and educatio...
Europe 2020 flagship initiative Youth on the move (EU Commission Work Programme 2010)
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Can anything be done to reduce idleness and frustration, improve the functioning of jobs markets, and to give young people better skills to start an independent life and a productive career? According to Eurostat, the statistical office of the Europ...
Europe 2020 strategy: Flagship initiative Youth on the move
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Education is at the heart of the Europe 2020 flagship initiative Youth on the move, which aims at improved employability and employment for young EU citizens. Context The Europe 2020 strategy puts forward three priorities for growth (smart, sustaina...
TAKING ACTION WITH YOUTH AND BUSINESS LEADERS
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It’s always exciting to meet the people who are shaping today’s digital world. There are so many new ideas out there, it’s good the share and learn from others as I did at the European Business Summit this week in Brussels. I wa...
How creative are you?
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If you’re an existing or aspiring journalist, there are two pretty cool competitions going on at the moment which you might be interested in. The first is the Enlargement Young Journalist award, open to journalists and journalism students aged...
Stoyan Baltov and the Hopelessness of Bulgarian Youth
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Stoyan Baltov is dead. He was beaten to death on this day, December 5th, 2008 in front of a disco club in Sofia. His death prompted a series of protests that climaxed on January, 14th 2009. On this date police dispersed the protestеrs in front of th...
An Intergroup on Youth Issues in the European Parliament?
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European Parliament intergroups are a rather unknown but still interesting subject for non-insiders to the European Parliament or the Brussels bubble, which for me is proved by the interest my article on intergroups (covering the last European Parlia...
Educating Children and Youth in their Rights to Prevent Trafficking and Unsafe Migration
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Every year, thousands of juveniles and minors from Southeast Europe are moving to West European countries. Some of them become part of the circle of trafficking and get involved in different forms of exploitation, begging and committing of pocket-pic...
European Parliament elections 2009 (104): Youth against youth - FYEG and EFAy attack YEPP, ECOSY, and LYMEC
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Huuh, the political youth organisations are getting active.Now FYEG (the Young European Greens) and EFAy (the youth of the European Free Alliance) attack the youth organisations of the three major European Parties (YEPP, ECOSY, LYMEC) following their...
European Parliament elections 2009 (102): Youth candidates running for the European Parliament - LYMEC
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Last week, I have been asking four European party youth organisations - YEPP, ECOSY, LYMEC (who have been issuing a joint statement against youth abstention yesterday) and FYEG (the Green youth) - about "their" candidates for the EP elections.Here ar...
Cultural Diplomacy in the Mediterranean: A Young Leaders Forum
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Seminary on Cultural Diplomacy in the Mediterranean Cultural Diplomacy in the Mediterranean: A Forum for Young Leaders Weeklong Seminar: 9th – 13th June, 2009, Berlin Now Accepting Applications The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy is delighted...
Is the European Youth Forum in bad shape?
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Nonformality, a former board member of the European Youth Forum (YFJ), has blogged a long article on his view on the current situation in the YFJ, and it is very negative.An extract:[T]here is, regrettably, no open discourse on the situation of the Y...
European Youth and Mobility… or busy MEP’s on vote mission. [Veerle VRINDTS]
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I didn’t even get close to them. They ran away as soon as I took my voicerecorder and paper with questions. MEPs on vote-mission, hurry, hurry, still 5 more meetings to attend. “Goodbye! Vote for me, please! Of course we will enlarge the...
Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) with new leadership
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Last week, the Young European Greens (FYEG) have elected a new leadership team at their General Assembly in Maastricht.The new team includes:Eline van Nistelrooij (The Netherlands) - female spokespersonGordan Isabegovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - mal...
PES Activist is the new National Chair of Young Labour!
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On Saturday 18th April, PES activist Sam Tarry was elected National Chair of Young Labour in the UK. Campaigning with his manifesto, ‘Organising to win', Sam has promised bi-monthly campaign training seminars, a national full time officer for Young...
What was going on at the ECOSY Congress?
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Last weekend, the Young European Socialists (ECOSY) gathered for their congress in Brussels, where a new leadership was about to be elected.Looking on Twitter, I found the following messages:Ilia Markov (Bulgaria): "Back home from Brussels after a de...
European Young Journalist Award
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I’ve been asked to give this a plug - the deadline’s 31st May, the age limit is 17-35, and the prize (of which there is one for every EU member state) is a trip to Berlin in August/September (just in time for the 20th anniversary of the f...
One and a half hours flying time and yet light-years apart: Vienna – Brussels
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Youngsters and political experts discussed the future of the European Union By Verena Schiefer. Translated by Stefan Fersterer and Alexandra Skwara. The Austrian Euro-scepticism cannot be considered a well-kept secret. A person transforms into...
Could you wait while I look for my hearing aid?
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Can you Hear Me Europe? Really? That is the best name that MTV could come up with for their European Elections project? As I noted last week, the campaign is initiated by European Commissioner for Communication Margot Wallström and MTV, who met earl...
Laurent Schouteten new president of the EPP Youth
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The 28-years old French UMP member Laurent Schouteten (photo) has been elected new president of the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP) on Friday.Schouteten has been a vice president of YEPP in the previous term and replaces the Greek Ioannis...
What would you call ‘Rock the Vote’ in Europe?
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The Weekly Calendar of Commissioners tells us that European Commissioner for Communication Margot Wallström is meeting with MTV Southern Europe to announce a campaign by MTV to raise awareness of the European Parliament elections among young people.
European Parliament elections 2009 (64): Main European youth organisations call for a true European debate during the EP election campaign
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All major European youth organisations, including theEuropean Youth Forum (YFA), the (party) political youth organisationsYouth of the European People’s Party (YEPP),Young European Socialists (ECOSY),European Liberal Youth (LYMEC),Federation of Yo...
