After a year and a half of debate and negotiations between the Flemish and the Walloons, Belgium will finally have a government with full executive powers in the coming days. Still, Belgium is not out of crisis. The country which houses the heart of the EU may explode at any time, sowing discord in...
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Belgian Crisis: The EU has its head in the sand!
Euro-orphans: What about us?
The 6th annual European Forum on the Rights of the Child was held in Brussels last week, on the 23rdof November. The key actors from European Institutions, EU Member States, and Ombudspersons for children, international organisations and NGOs were sharing their experiences and ideas, exchanging views and providing examples of the best practices of...
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Leaving for prosperity
Things are not going really good nowadays in Spain. Recession, economic stagnation, upcoming elections and not knowing what is going to happen in the following years are some of the main issues that worry Spanish society at this moment. The biggest one is unemployment, which is over 20% now. Almost 5,000,000 people in Spain...
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Icelandic Foot In The Door
By Carlos Encinas and Wyatt McCall. The Little Northern European Island is the EU’s Key Step for the Arctic. The melting Arctic is more than a problem, it’s also soon to be a hot spot of economic eruption. Where once was ice, there now churns liquid assets. Where once only the bravest of explorers...
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A speech? What speech?
By Agatha Akhabue & Enora Régnier The 28th of September, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, made his annual speech about the state of the Union and solutions he proposed to end the crisis. A discourse that didn’t really empassion Europeans, who often missed it entirely. Barroso? Who’s that guy?...
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Economic crisis make Spaniards to increase interest on EU
Spain has been a member of the European Union since 1986, when it entered along with Portugal after some years of negotiation and preparation for the admission. By that time, that was a really good opportunity for Spain because the country could receive a lot of funds for rural and agriculture development. Former dictator...
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Utrecht Central Station: WHERE VISA CARDS DON’T WORK
Travelling from one country to another, one always has expectations, especially if it is a place you have heard of, or longed to be. Your first impression of the place will either make you love or hate it. In addition, questions arise like: Do I want to come back here? Yes, I would love to. No,...
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“I Am An Animal Person”-Ieva Šližiutė
Ieva Šližiutė, was born into the large Šližius family in Kretinga a small town in Lithuania. on March 16th 1990. She has two brothers and a sister, two nieces and two nephews. She grew up in Kreting and later moved to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Ieva is a lover of animals, she...
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Spanish views in Utrecht
Utrecht is the Dutch-style city I had imagined it to be before arriving in Holland. I have previously visited Amsterdam, so I thought that Utrecht would look pretty similar and I was right. It is a small city compared to my hometown, Madrid, which is a very good thing when you want to move...
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How to blend in?
So, you’ve arrived in Utrecht. “Welkom”, as the dutch would say. First of all – don’t worry. Depending on where you come from, the Netherlands may seem like an odd and confusing place, with people speaking fast in an incomprehensible language. Nevertheless, this is a hospitable country. It won’t take long before you are...
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Out of place, yet on the right track
Although he made an early departure from Club Poema yesterday – hours before closing time – Liam Gascoigne still has not caught up on his sleep when we meet at Neude in central Utrecht. It is his third day in the Netherlands. “Everyone is very polite here” he says while considering the strange-looking sweet...
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Time-saving greens
When arriving in a country for the first time, I usually head for the supermarket. Not just to ease my jet-lag with a snack or some ice tea, but to learn. Just as the local media will tell you a lot about its readers, the grocers’ is a great place for getting to know...
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Back to School for Thomas
Having left his native Sweden already a working journalist, Thomas Pickelner, 26, is one of the few in the Europe in the World Program no longer a student. He has spent the last few months working for a Swedish television station in Uppsala where he worked as a camera man, reporter, and even an...
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Getting in touch with The Netherlands
Bobbie van der List is the younger of three children and he grew up with “three mothers” as his older sisters took care of him too and advised him in, for example, going on a long trip to get to know himself. After finishing high school, at the age of eighteen, all on his...
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Green, Grey, Great
I got my first impression of The Netherlands, and of Utrecht itself, in the train on the way from Amsterdam to Utrecht. Seeing the city from the outside, one of the things that attracted my attention is that those low typical Dutch houses shaping the city are surrounded by some huge buildings, probably belonging...
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Coal wagons turned into ropes and swim fins
By Anna Buch, Ana Muñoz Padrós, Beatriz Paúl Naya and Anna Rydholm. The solution to problems is not always to start from the beginning. That is what they thought in the Ruhr area when the coal industry when died and significant mines were abandoned. Many years of history and work for the people of...
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Mobiles with Strings Attached?
Stay home or shut up Previous reforms aren’t enough to keep up with the increasingly borderless community of the European Union. Within the Single market of Europe, there is still at least one huge obstacle to overcome, The telecommunications market. There are regulations for all European players in this field, but it’s not enough....
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European Budget Hardly Pleases Every Member State
By Anna Buch, Anna Rydholm, Ana Muñoz Padrós and Beatriz Paúl Naya If managing home economics to reach the end of the month might be an achievement for the major part of the world population, managing the budget of the Europe of the twenty seven must be a great challenge. Discontent and complains have...
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Come back tomorrow
By Steffen Hesseldal Windfeld-Hansen and Beatriz Paúl Naya “You just need to look at the yellow piece of paper, and then you will know where to get it”, Arie said in the library. It seemed easy, just around the corner, as many things are in Utrecht, but as it turns out, nothing is that...
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SOS : Save Our Specie
By : Andrew Codd, Miguel Duran de Barbozza, Margot Perrier, Alexandra Tengberg FIXING EURO SINGLE CURRENCY 2010 is going to be the year when Europe realizes how much work it has to catch up. Since this past weekend, all the Euro zone, from ” in the red “countries like Greece or Portugal, to strong...
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