Category: Youth Unemployment

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Summit Is Postponed, Youth Unemployment Is Still There

    My name is Armanda. I am 25 years old and a student of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. On 11 July, the European Summit on Youth Unemployment should have taken place in Turin. Offically, the Italian government headed by Renzi has judged it more appropriate to postpone the meeting to the end of…

  • The Growing Generation Gap

     My name is Stylia, I am 24 years old and have studied international and European studies. Has the crisis really come to an end?  An average observer not living in Greece might as well say so. Greece is no longer making big headlines, the Memorandum ‘expires’ in May and the rating agencies give out positive…