Tag: traineeship
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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…
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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…