Towards an awareness of the discrimination afflicting the continent’s largest majority?
Less enthusiasm, more rhetoric and modest outcomes: a young member grows old.
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Of course the true winners of this year’s World Cup are many: first and foremost the game of football itself; second the South African hosts as they showed great support for all the teams despite their home team Bafana, bafana suffering an early exit; and thirdly we as Europeans can be proud that the top three finishers were all European teams with Spain leading the way!
Even Commission President Barroso got enthusiastic about Europe for a change: “In this championship, the European teams were ambassadors of Europe’s spirit, energy and openness,” he said in a statement emailed to press on Monday morning.
The European Commission has launched today the Europe 2020 Strategy. The Commission identifies three key drivers for growth, to be implemented through concrete actions at EU and national levels: smart growth (fostering knowledge, innovation, education and digital society), sustainable growth (making our production more resource efficient while boosting our competitiveness) and inclusive growth (raising participation in the labour market, the acquisition of skills and the fight against poverty).
The strategy was criticised by some to be not ambitious enough.
The European Parliament approved the new line-up of the European Commission today at 9 February 2010 with 488 votes in favour, 137 against and with 72 abstentions.
The new team will be in charge during the legislative period until 2014.
Read more about it here.
Outgoing Commissioner Margot Wallström praises the work of former JEF-Europe President Jon Worth as blogger and our JEF webzine Le Taurillon!
Joint PR of JEF, LYMEC, FYEG, EFAy and YFJ on new visa rules
Young people of three Balkan countries (MK, MN and RS) can for the first time freely experience Europe!
If Maja from Belgrade wants to visit an art exhibition in Budapest, if Dejan from Skopje wants to book a low-cost flight for his New Year’s visit to Berlin or if Milica from Podgorica wants to attend a youth camp in Sweden, they can all finally do it from the 19th of December 2009 onwards freely, without a long, expensive and uncertain procedure of applying for a Schengen visa.