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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Euro-orphans: What about us?
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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This Year’s State of the Union more Strained, as Europe Stagnates Dealing With Economic Crisis
UTRECHT – European ideals came to an abrupt halt this year as the financial crisis overshadowed most of the five major challenges of Barroso’s 2010 State of the Union address. Repeatedly blaming the lack of a common European voice for the union’s sluggish response to the crisis, a more serious Barroso addressed the union...
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Mixed reactions to a financial tax in the Union
State of the Union: In his state of the Union speech Commission President, José Manuel Barroso advocated for the implementation of a tax on financial transactions in the EU, the so called Tobin Tax. The European Central Bank, however, is sceptical towards the idea. By: Sajeev Shankar and Peter Sharples Two weeks ago,...
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Europe Needs Some Bonding Time
By: Wyatt McCall and Annica Lindstrom If Europe was a feuding family, it would be time to seek professional counceling.Like most struggling families these days, their problems are financial. Greece has been the black sheep of the family, having been childish with its money, spending too much, working too little, and all the while...
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European Union, what European Union?
Ask the average Brit what their opinion is on the European Union and they will either be honest of embarrassed by the fact that they know little to nothing at all. For example, I left a Facebook status asking for opinions and thoughts, I received not a single comment. I doubt that it is...
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Canadian and European Students Have Shared Knowledge About EU
Taken from metareporter.nl Jessica Cheng, a first year university student from Canada, admits she is embarrassed about her lack of knowledge on the European Union, which currently comes from Twitter news updates. “We don’t really talk about the EU,” says Cheng. “There are more important issues for us, like what happens in the United...
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Mood swings in Baltic countries
Half of the Baltic countries’ population believes that their life was better 20 years ago. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the international recognition of the restored independence of three Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Twenty years ago these countries were re – establishing diplomatic relations and the main task was to...
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Is the EU finnished?
HELSINKI, Finland – Timo Soini, party leader of the EU-sceptic and populist party True Finns, was the big winner when Finland held elections in April. With 19,1 percent of the vote, the True Finns became Finland’s third biggest party.
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A founding member of something little understood
France has always played an important role in the European Union, since its creation. Yet, the French have an increasingly negative picture of the European Union, which is not doing enough for their tastes. An image that can be explained by the fact that they do not know much about how it functions. No...
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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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RE-SHAPING, RE-USING
By Andrew T. Codd , I.Miguel Durán de Barbozza and Margot Perrier Transforming the Ruhr from a dying industrial center to a lively cultural area came just in time to preserve the areas history, channeling it into new means without forgetting the area’s heritage, but many hours of organazing meetings were needed to achieve...
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Turkey – a long day’s journey into membership
By Anna Buch, Ana Muñoz Padrós, Beatriz Paúl Naya and Anna Rydholm For over fifty years, Turkey has been knocking on the door to Europe. But negotiations have proved sluggish, obstructed by conceptions like religion, law and identity. Yesterday was an important day in the history of Turkish accession to the European Union, since...
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Short reckonings make long friends
By Andrew Codd, Isaac Duran de Barbozza , Margot Perrier, Alexandra Tendberg In the preamble of the founding treaty of the European Union it clearly states that members should “strengthen the unity of their economies and to ensure their harmonious development by reducing the dfferences existing between the various regions”, but distributing money without...
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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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Three solutions to Eurozone weaknesses: says Economist
By Steffen Hesseldal Windfeld-Hansen, Michael Huguenin and Piers d’Orgee The Eurozone’s current overall growth is in stark contrast to the condition of some individual states. Their situation is altogether less than acceptable. While Germany, the economic powerhouse, sits somewhat appeased with its best quarter for economic growth since the reunification, there are a few...
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Bea as in Beautiful
By Steffen Windfeld First impression of Beatrice – or Bea, as she likes to be called – is not of the typical Spanish student. With her blond hair and shy way, she seems very far from the regular, loud-speaking, dark-haired Spanish, that you would expect, sitting there, in one of the few hours of...
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Bigger is better in the EU
Increasing the role of the parliament may leave smaller member states in the dark by Andrew Codd, Miguel Duran de Barbozza, Margot Perrier, Alexandra Tengberg Smaller member states are becoming increasingly common within the EU through the enlargements that has marked recent political activity within the Union; However, as their numbers grow, the power...
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ECI – hollow acronym or not
The Lisbon treaty grants a new right to European citizens : the possibility to take part in legislative propositions. Could this be the answer to a lack of democracy in the community?
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Europe’s milk struggle and its affect on the Dutch dairy sector.
The effects of the abolition of the European Milk Quota in 2015 on the Dutch dairy farmers. By Elke Willemsen and Heather E. Moore Milk prices in Europe are currently at a historic low, leading to troubled times among dairy farmers. The future plans of the European Commission to abolish the current EU milk...
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