By Pinar Temocin / Image via AK Rockefeller The Kurdish question has been considered as an important issue in struggling to build an independent nation. They are the second largest ethnic group living partly in the eastern part of Turkey with their own language, traditions and customs. The Kurds are considered as a stateless nation…
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The EU Seen by an Englishman
The text was originally published in the magazine of French Young Greens Journal La Souris Verte . English version Interview of Mikey, 34 years old, English. He’s a teacher and a fireman. What do you think of the European union ? How do you see it? I’m kind of in favour of the European Union but…
Europe’s anti-austerity, democratic struggle enters next phase
Last night, it became clear for everyone that another Southern European country has abandoned an old political system and entered a new era. Spain and Greece are societies where the crisis has been exceptionally brutal. Where young people have to a large extent lost their future perspectives. Where voters have lost faith in the capacity…
ΟΧΙ to Bureaucracy
“This is not a Greek problem, this is a European problem,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said. “European problems require European solutions.” The context of this strong statement was from the European Parliament last Wednesday, when the PM referred to the referendum and its meaning. As we know, it was not a referendum on the Euro…
European Federation – Is it a Dream or a Nightmare?
Article first published on Why Go Federal Europe. Originally written by Tomas Bimbiris, Lithuanian blogger and European Voluntary Service volunteer based in Austria. ‘It is to re-create the European Family, or as much of it as we can, and to provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety…
Portraits of Migrants : Hanny, a car addict from Persia
Hanny is 28, from Tehran, in Persia/Iran. For a couple of months now, we are in the same class of our Integrationkurs, both struggling with German language. In Germany for just a year, she manages her way around pretty well in this tricky language. All which follows was expressed in German (aouch!). Hanny loves cars….
Europe needs Parity !
Gender equality is a common postulate declared by many parties and institutions in Europe. Nonetheless, the ways of achieving that equality are not so obvious for everybody. Parities and quotas, mechanisms to increase number of women in public life, are one of the tools that are raising controversy. Often questions are asked: Do we really…
Get Involved !
For each new edition of the Ecosprinter, the EEB will be from now proposing to you offers, calls and opportunities to get involved in all spheres of society, according to your interests. Job offers, Civic services, call for papers, conferences on migration or Roma issues, petitions and ECIs : get involved ! And of course,…
« I am candidate to the European Constitutional Convention »
When you ask him about the future of Europe, he starts with… 1989. The year he started his European carrier as young and newly elected MEP. Twenty years, 4 MEP mandates and one European Parliament vice-presidential office later, his eyes still sparkle when he talks about the past, present and future of the European Union….
Three scenarios for the EU in 2020
Forecasting is a perilous exercise for those involved: we necessarily extrapolate from known facts and not from unknown facts, which normally makes the exercise quickly obsolete. Who would have predicted in October 2004, for example, that France will buck against the project of constitutional treaty, thinking she was choosing an economic model ; or the…