Thinking of Luxembourg you might just imagine a wealthy country with beautiful rich people and no problems with (youth) unemployment. But regarding the statistics you’ll easily see that the nice and happy image that our governement is always presenting during European meetings is nothing but a facade. Under that surface 30% of people under 30…
Category: Economy
Securing Europe’s Future
It may seem an obvious statement but Europe’s future depends on its youth. A fifth of the EU´s total population – close to 100 million – are below 30 but despite the fact that Europe´s future prosperity to a large extent lies in the hands of its young people, Europe is not giving its youth…
Tackling Unemployment. Properly.
It is horrible. More than 5 million and hence every fifth person in the EU that is under the age of 25 has no work or apprenticeship. But now the EU is launching an initiative called “Youth on the move” to tackle youth unemployment to find a job and even give youngsters a “guarantee” for…
Unemployment And Crime
I am waiting here in the coldness of my prison cell. It is dark, resembling my lost soul. Yet, a small window offers hope for life outside. What awaits me? Is it a closed chapter? I long for it, to work, to live, to raise a family. To love, one day! The same room protects…
Work In A Green Society: What Makes Life Worthwhile?
We find in the “production → work → consumption” circle one simple way to explain how the core of modern societies is organized. In short, we produce goods and services that need labour force. Jobs help us to earn money. We use the money to [hyper] consume those goods, creating a demand for them to…
Youth Unemployment From Ukrainian Perspective
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. James Joyce While reading textbooks, studying case studies, analyzing data, verifying resources you are dreaming about your great future. While obtaining an internship, you are planning your great successful future. You study foreign languages, improve your communication and IT…
How FYEG Green Economy Group Got New Breath In Brussels
After the article of FYEG Gender Working Group on the meeting in Brussels (27-30 August) appeared in Ecosprinter, Green Economy Group decided that we should definitely write a report as well. The thing that all the groups agreed to during the meeting is to be more active, communicate more, write more.
Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth
Joan Martinez-Alier and Giorgos Kallis ICTA, UAB (www.eco2bcn.es) The economic crisis of 2008-09 affords an opportunity to put the economy of the rich countries on a different trajectory as regards material and energy flows. Before 2008, world carbon dioxide emissions were growing by 3 per cent per year, we would have reached 450 ppm in…
Technology : we need a radical change
The crisis brings a great chance and also a great danger for the future of green technologies. We make a choice. It’s considered that any crisis of the system means not only negative consequences but also new opportunities for the system to be changed. The crisis we live nowadays is not excluded. Nevertheless, many defenders…
What happens when we make a change?
Green politics can provide a source of real hope Recession: a hefty hammer of a word, capable of fracturing an impenetrable mob of environmentalists into many shards of differing opinion. There is a ‘less is more’ school of thought, popular among cynics, which teaches that less money in the pocket of the consumer directly correlates…