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  Youth participation in Europe: Less is more

  

  Last Saturday – Have you ever found yourself doing something just for your CV? These days society expects us to study in a more straightforward way, without looking left or right, in order to graduate as soon as possible. No wonder: The new education ideal is (...) by Bertram Lang, Alice Uwineza, Sebastian Seeger

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  JEF France and JEF Germany urge their governments not to re-nationalise borders

  

  26 April 2012 – The Jeunes Européens France and the Junge Europäische Föderalisten Deutschland (JEF) strongly condemn any attempt to re-nationalise border controls within the Schengen Area. On April 20, 2012, a letter of the French and German interior ministers (...) by JEF Deutschland, JEF Secretariat, Le Bureau national des Jeunes Européens-France

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  How can we create a European identity?

  

  4 March 2012 – The latest Eurobarometer survey shows that, in average, in the European Union, people continue to trust more the EU than national institutions. However, since the autumn of 2009, a worrying trend appears, showing a substantial loss of confidence (...) by Pierre-Antoine KLETHI

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  Kosovo: four years of independence

  

  1 March 2012 – Kosovo is a relatively small country when compared with other European and neighbouring countries as it is just 10,878 km² and has two million inhabitants, but despite its size it has big aspirations. On 17 February Kosovo celebrated its fourth (...) by Ardita Osmanaj

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  A long train to remember

  

  13 February 2012 – Arriving in Auschwitz together with Treno della Memoria (the Train of Memory) is probably one of the most touching and moving ways to understand and to re-live the massacre and tragedy that occurred in this barren land of southern Poland. The (...) by Matteo Manfredini

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  The New Hungarian Constitution and The New Hungarians

  

  10 January 2012 – After having read one of Krugman’s articles in the New York Times where a certain Kim Lane Scheppele explains her juridic point of view on the new Constitution, I began asking myself questions about what impact might this have on the Hungarians (...) by Leyla Mutiu

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  Euphemisms and the Crisis

  

  26 December 2011 – Politically correct language usually carries the wicked effect of confusion. That is the reason why we should pay attention to facts and not only to words. This article aims to show what stands behind two terms: “markets” and “sovereignty”. (...) by Pablo Baez Guersi

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  International NGOs stand up for human rights in Belarus

  

  18 December 2011 – International NGOs will organize street actions across Europe to stand up for human rights in Belarus on 19 December 2011. Joint actions of NGOs will take place in London, Zurich, Prague, Berlin, Stockholm and Amsterdam. Groups of Young European (...) by JEF-Europe

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  The Reluctant Partner

  

  5 December 2011 – With Europe gripped by the worst economic crisis of recent times; much analysis is rightly focusing on the intricacies of the decisions surrounding monetary and fiscal union that Europe faces. This article does not explore the merits or failures (...) by Chris Wilford | 1 comment

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  How the EU could end up breaking what it was supposed to unite

  

  27 November 2011 – Unless the macroeconomic diet imposed to southern countries it is complemented with fiscal transfers, it will asphyxiate economic recovery which in turn is going to break-up the already unstable countries. A new European Convention is necessary (...) by Joan Marc Simon

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