OUR EYE ON THE EU | JULY 2023

Elections, rule of law, labour rights – July at EU institutions Spain takes over the Council of the EU’s presidency As of 1 July, Spain has taken over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. This means Spain will lead the meetings of the 10 different configurations of the Council (such as Justice and Home Affairs,…

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Belgrade: Conflict of two (and a half) worlds

When strolling the streets of Belgrade, it is impossible to avoid reflection about the absurdity of war and the different paths this part of Europe could have taken. Romanticising the past comes instinctively. On the one hand because the same nationalist, patriarchal, divisive discourse, aesthetics and symbols are still used by the same shadowy elites that have ruled the…

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OUR EYE ON THE EU | JUNE 2023

Filling the Gaps – is the EU really trying? Youth rights: towards EU rules to ban unpaid internships On 14 June the European Parliament plenary adopted a report calling on the European Commission to propose a directive on Quality Traineeships. MEPs, in particular, want minimum quality standards for traineeships in EU states, with rules on the duration, remuneration, and…

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Comics ECHO Academy | 12 June – 2 July

Ten artists from Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Serbia came to Athens to participate in the ECHO Academies Comics Academy. The Comics Academy aimed to give the artists all the tools to be able to create their original comic stories inspired by the Karagiozis shadow puppet theatre and to design their own pilot projects based…

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Super FEM – Doing Different Things Differently

Capacity Building for Youth Workers and Project Managers 30 May – 4 June 2023 (in Balestrand, Norway) Youth Workers and Project Managers working on youth projects from Inter Alia, POKAZ, IRM, Art Fusion and Creative Connections gathered in Balestrand, Norway, to officially kick the “Super FEM” project off and to work on the skills, abilities and processes necessary for…

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WHY THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF SKILLS NEEDS TO BE RE-CENTRED ON CIVIL SOCIETY

by Martina Tresca* During the annual State of the European Union speech in September 2022, the President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen announced the Commission’s proposal to make 2023 the European Year of Skills. As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine accentuated labour mismatches and high unemployment rates inside the Union, this thematic…

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Reflecting on policy proposals for Degrowth: feasibility and transformations – Op-Ed*

By Amerissa Giannouli** Almost 7 years have passed since I wrote my first article on Degrowth. Back then, I could not have imagined how popular Degrowth would become. I remember searching for videos on YouTube and media articles about Degrowth, and there were only a few. Nowadays, there are promising developments that indicate Degrowth is gaining political momentum (e.g. Professor Jason…

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