“Good lord … Is that it?” That was my immediate reaction to reading David Cameron’s Telegraph article. Barely a few days after Carl Bildt admitted that he had no idea what it was that London wanted from Europe, we were …
The EU’s Tower of Babel: break it down or build it up?
One cup of coffee per EU citizen. This is a rough estimate of the translation costs of the European Parliament on a yearly basis. A small price to safeguard an important feature of democracy you might argue. The EU has …
Perspectives of separatist regions’ participation in DCFTA
Georgia’s aspiration for Europe is the link connecting the country’s long-term development with democratization, while safety and conflict regulation are the most important tasks on the way to Georgia’s European integration. Given the present political and geo-political situation, progress …
AEGEE Europe/The European Students’ Forum demands a change in the European direction
AEGEE Europe — European Students’ Forum launched the Y Vote 2014 project. Following the success of the first edition of the Y Vote Project which was aimed at raising awareness of the European elections in 2009 and increasing youth participation, the Y Vote …
The local conversation model
We are sharing our daily life experiences on social media, brands are fishing for our ‘likes’ and people are having conversations in what McLuhan calls the global village. Politicians and (EU) political institutions are also starting to understand the importance of …
EU talking only to ‘Brussels Bubble’ inhabitants, not citizens
Internally-oriented communication initiatives and an overreliance on technical jargon prevent citizens from having a real conversation with the EU. In the midst of the European Union’s on-going struggle to communicate its message and plug an ever growing democratic gap, a …
Europe’s rise or fall as a technological superpower
It is part of mankind’s drive for knowledge to delve into the unknown, explore the undiscovered, dream up the uninvented. The founding fathers of Europe paved the way for the Industrial Revolution, and the scientific discoveries that allowed our …