Category: Future of Europe
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TTIP and the Secrete Deal between EU and USA
My name is Armanda. I am 25 years old and a student of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. On 11 October 2014 thousands of people took to the streets all over Europe in order to express their opposition to TTIP(Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)-TAFTA(Transatlantic Free Trade Area). In a nutshell, TTIP is a…
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A European Union of Citizens?
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. To begin with, I would like to remind you of something which disappeared in the abyss of public inattention during the summer break. After all, the World Cup did not only fill…
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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…
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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…
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Socio-Economic Rights and the European Dream
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. British philosopher Isaiah Berlin once said, during a famous lecture delivered before the University of Oxford in 1958: “’Freedom…
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We and the Others
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 who might convince me to re-consider. The recent development in the world has…