Youth and Travel

Living Europe: 5 countries meet in Latvia

The programme was mainly formed as a First Aid Toolkit (FAT) comprised of various non-formal education methods. The Youth in Action project was set up between the five JEF sections coming from countries of Latvia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Switzerland, Macedonia and Denmark. 23 people participated (...)

Thursday 24 May 2007

Living the European Dream

Young European Federalists are out on the streets again to celebrate Europe and to fight for the realisation of Schuman’s dream - a European federation. For Europe, the 9th of May is a day of celebration, and the Young European Federalists (JEF) makes an active contribution to these (...)

Wednesday 9 May 2007

Lithuanian Youth Supports Estonian Goverment over Monument Dispute

The undersigned Lithuanian non-governmental youth organizations express their support to Estonian government and are concerned about the peaceful settlement of the conflict caused by the removal of the Bronze Soldier statue. Lithuanian non-governmental youth organizations strongly believe that (...)

Wednesday 2 May 2007

Speak Up Europe and European Vibes

The Speak Up Europe campaign is the largest civil-society-led campaign in the framework of the European Commission’s Plan D on democracy, dialogue and debate. Its aim is to bring the debate on Europe and the challenges it is facing today and tomorrow to all 27 member states and to feed back the (...)

Monday 9 April 2007

20 years of Erasmus in Europe

Erasmus, the action of the Socrates program of the European Commission, will celebrate in 2007 its 20 years of existence in Europe. This action is opened to all the 27 Member States of the European Union, to Turkey, as well as the Member States of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA): (...)

Monday 22 January 2007

Bulgarian youth: caught between hope and reality

In the present article the author analyses the situation of young people in Bulgaria in the last two decades, from the fall of Communism to the long awaited entry into the EU. The article touches upon the topics of brain-drain, which had hit Bulgarian society especially hard, the emerging (...)

Sunday 14 January 2007

Another Swiss Referendum, another Youth Campaign - 4:0 for Europe

On the 26th of November Swiss citizens approved the Eastern Europe Cooperation Act (EECA) by 53.4%. This is the fourth popular vote since 2000 with a pro-European outcome. Given that the no-side prevailed in the pre-referendum surveys, the [Young European Swiss (YES)->http://www.y-e-s.ch were (...)

Saturday 16 December 2006

Foreign Languages in Finland’s Educational System

The results of surveys show that the majority of Europeans learn languages only in school; this indicates the importance of the educational system in promoting the learning of languages in Europe. Finnish 15-year-olds were among the best in all four domains assessed by the PISA 2003 survey (...)

Wednesday 25 October 2006

Viva Europe and its languages!

By now it is clear that learning one lingua franca is not enough in Europe. “All Europeans should know at least two languages in addition to their mother tongue”, according to the statement of the European Commission published on their webpage. It is important to acknowledge the benefits of (...)

Sunday 22 October 2006

Get VISAble!

“It takes six months to build a market economy, six years to build a democracy and sixty years to build civil society”. This provocative statement by Lord Dahrendorf (a liberal democrat) actually contains some truth: building a fully-fledged participative society takes a lot of time and effort. (...)

Sunday 10 September 2006

Galaxy Europe - To Boldly Lead the EU Where No One Has Ever Gone Before!

JEFers around Europe have been often criticised for seeming to live sometimes in a world of their own, dreaming of a Europe based on unity, democracy, transparency and, of course, federalism. More than a different world, this might seem for some to be a whole new different galaxy. In all (...)

Monday 4 September 2006

Language courses

In the EU25, it has become necessary to be multilingual. Then what can be said about the language skills in the European Union and how could we encourage language learning all around the Europe? Now that The European Union consists of 25 members, a recent study shows that already 50% of the (...)

Monday 14 August 2006
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