Every European Citizen has the right to work. Without having proper access to work they do not have the full dignity of citizens. Among other things, the right to work refers to the creation of jobs, putting an end to …
Intern Ever After
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 We don’t get free tea and coffee in the Commission, tax payers will be delighted to know. Thus the queue for the coffee machines, where thoroughly unappetising coffee is only 30 cent, is normally very long. Recently …
The lighter side of Parliament by Richard Corbett
Linguistic anecdotes There are, of course, many stories about linguistic misunderstandings in the European Parliament. Trying to tell a joke in the chamber is always risky: one group (if you’re lucky) will laugh immediately, others may laugh ten seconds later …
An Unidentified ‘European’ Object
“French girls are a bit stuck up, the Mediterraneans want to fiesta all the time, the Germans are uptight, the Scandinavians are hot, and nobody understands the British sense of humour”: the usual stereotypes are conformed to and defied in …
First European Party
In the recent years, the European Union has been facing one of its biggest crisis in several aspects: social, political, economic and financial. One the most concerning issues has been the youth unemployment that has deep consequences at economic and …
The First European Party and the European Interns’ Day
Unpaid internships, bad working conditions, working without a contract are some of the problems faced by interns everywhere in Europe and some of the reasons that motivated the EID’s event last Friday. The Let’s Start the First European Party joined …
European Interns’ Day
Interns, young professionals as well as employers, officials from EU institutions, and civil society organisations advocating for youth employment, will take over Place Luxembourg to protest in front of the Parliament against interns’ precarious working conditions in Europe. With youth unemployment …
Youth, Cannabis & the EU Bubble
The EU Bubble is a place of contrast. The lucky interns who managed to gain work experience at the European Parliament earn so little that most fall below the poverty line. As a stagiaire the youth are often put through …
REPORT: EU encounter of the third kind
On July 3rd, the European Union community made a contact of the third kind with an alien proclaiming to be the Alien Messiah. That day, the weather was sunny but often breezy, one could feel something was just not right …
Polish fascists attack London Music festival
A Turf War is Shaping Up Between Fascists and Anti-Fascists in London. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYtXlv4k550[/embedyt] On Saturday, June 21st, a group of 20 polish far-right nationalists from Zjednoczeni Emigranci Londyn (Emigrants United London) attacked the audience at a multicultural family event called …