Young Voices of Europe

  • Tusk, Mogherini and the Defeat of Europe

    My name is Giuseppe, I am 26 years old. I work in a library. I have a degree in Classical Literature and now I am studying Philosophy. I live in Eboli, a small town in southern Italy. The new European Commission is taking shape slowly, one day after another, while the memory of the European…

  • Fast Economy, Slow Changes? Interns and their Struggle for Recognition in Germany

    My name is Rica. I am a student of political science and German language and literature at the University of Bremen. Even before the adoption of a minimum wage in the coalition agreement of the current German government, there has been an ongoing public debate about internships. Somehow the term ‘Generation Internship’ popped up and…

  • I Want to Be Part of a European Youth Movement!

    Aged 27, 31 and 32 Green German MEPs Terry Reintke, Jan Philipp Albrecht and Ska Keller belong to the young voices in the European Parliament. Europe is still in crisis. Holding on to short-sighted austerity measures, the governments of the EU Member States are postponing the necessary sustainable reforms. Even though they are not to…

  • 1st European Interns Day. Occupying Place Lux

    My name is Stylia, 24, freelance journalist, EU enthusiast and perspective MA student of the Political Economy of European Integration. On Friday July 18th, around 200 interns, young professionals, officials from EU institutions, and civil society organisations, took over Place du Luxembourg to protest in front of the Parliament against interns’ precarious working conditions in…

  • “History is with us all the Time“

    My name is Daniel and I am 26-year old European Studies master student from Hanover, Germany. I consider myself as pro-European but EU-critical. Fraser Cameron said this at a recent event of the Heinrich Böll-Stiftung in Brussels and he is right: historical incidents such as the First World War still affect us in many ways…

  • Social Exclusion in South East Asia and Europe

    I’m Christoforos, an expat Greek in his late twenties who tries to make the most out of his nomadic life. With background in media and communications, I experience the daily struggle to find accurate information and stay open to new theories that might convince me to re-consider. I more or less disappeared from the online…

  • An Apology of Populism (4): Democracy by Conflict, not by Consensus

    My name is Sebastiano I’m a 24 years old student in Macroeconomics and co-founder of TRAM:E (Theory, Reflection, Action, Movement: Europe). Born Italian, raised Belgian, French, German. Migrant by nature. Boundaries, borders… not my thing. Polyglot. “I don’t know what distinguishes us”. The Socialist Spitzenkandidat Martin Schulz couldn’t have found better words to put in…

  • An Apology of Populism (3): Eurocriticals and the Federalist Leap

    My name is Sebastiano I’m a 24 years old student in Macroeconomics and co-founder of TRAM:E (Theory, Reflection, Action, Movement: Europe). Born Italian, raised Belgian, French, German. Migrant by nature. Boundaries, borders… not my thing. Polyglot. All Eurosceptic parties considered in the previous two posts (first and second) are – despite their ideological differences and…