The European Youth Forum is an international organisation established by national youth councils and international non-governmental youth organisations, like FYEG, to represent the interests of young people from all over Europe at the European and International level. European Its members, which are federations in themselves, bring together tens of millions of young people from all…
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European and international policies on forest protection
A. SITUATION AT THE MOMENT In the world, 1/3 of the land is covered by forests. 9,4 millions hectare forest per year disappear. ¼ of the world’s population depends on forest resources for a living. In Europe, forests are growing slowly. 36 percent of the land is covered by forests. There is an increase of…
Everybody happy in Ghent
Federative Council 2002 New statutes, a new political platform, new internal rules of procedure, a street action, a new Executive Committee…the latest Federative Council of the FYEG in Ghent, Belgium, was a very successful one. From Ukraine to Portugal and from Finland to Malta, 45 participants attended the Federative Council of the FYEG in Ghent,…
The European Youth Convention
From July 9th to 12th the European Youth Convention met in Brussels. 210 young delegates were supposed to discuss about the “Future of Europe” and thus advise the “senior” Convention. The delegates were either nominated by the national delgates to the Convention in cooperation with the National Youth Councils or by the delegations of the…
Denmark, President of the European Union
The big news on the day that the Danish presidency were that the new waiting rooms (not cages!) were ready for captured demonstrating people. By accident the policeman at the press conference called them cages. Accoding to radio they look like dog cages but supplied with fruit and white plastic garden chairs. So maybe it…
Malta, the EU and AD
Malta is one of the candidate countries vying for EU membership and therefore is going trough a very important phase in its long history. At the same time the European Union too is passing trough a very important phase. These changes in the EU will be discussed in the convention on the future of the…
Another Europe is possible
Next January, Spain takes up the presidency of the European Union at a period of stagnation of its development, and, needless to say, utter paralysis in terms of its social and political depth. The member states appear to be only concerned with not losing importance in the face of the growth of the Union,…