> Agora Alicante is approaching (to be more precise we have just 41 days till it starts) and it means that it’s time to gather Chair team, Juridical Commission and Secretary General at one place for working on content part of the Agora.  In this blog post I will try to describe how we were working during Chair meeting in… Read more →

CD House has a new inhabitant, and that is me – Kathrin Renner :). For the next two months, I’ll be assisting CD and especially Mirek with Fundraising, and my main responsibility will be the Study Fair in Alicante. I came here for the first time in my life last Tuesday, when I dropped all of my stuff already before… Read more →

> The International Politics Working Group just held an Article Contest –  “Crisis in Europe: What could European youth do to help its society to solve this problem?”, asking you to you to share with us any idea you might have on how the young people of our continent can take initiatives to overpass the current crisis at the economic, social and cultural level. Although… Read more →

> First weekend of not-so-cold February was again very busy in CD house. AEGEE-Academy, together with CD and Chair met here for strategic planning meeting on human resources. Friday was arrival day, a bit of getting to know each other, cooking dinner and surprisingly, going to sleep quite early, so everybody would be fresh next morning. And it was needed… Read more →

>For a long time mailing lists have been the main communication channel in our association. Some longer time ago aegee-l, as the main place for anything related to AEGEE was moderated and the subscribers and people actively taking part in the conversations were always reminded to follow the rules of the mailing list. For example it was common to redirect… Read more →

>Working full-time in an organisation makes me aware of many things. In the first place of course of all those things that fail, don’t work, go wrong. And it makes me think about “being organised” itself… Anarchists claim that any hierarchy, any form of authority, and this also includes any form of written regulation, are a threat to human nature… Read more →

> You always hear about them, some gossip here, some mails there, butwho are these people that are sitting in an office somewhere inBrussels? Network Director threatening to downgrade your antenna?Financial Director refusing reimbursement? Is the Comité Directeurtruly made out of people from flesh and blood? Yes, they are and nowyou will get the unique opportunity to get to know… Read more →

>Some more interesting differences with BEST (Board of European Students of Technology). – Their Network Update lasts nearly 1 hour per local. The local gives a presentation on why they should/shouldn’t be upgraded/downgraded and the whole plenary asks questions. – They have fixed seats, so the delegates get a strict eye if they are late in the plenary. It’s a… Read more →

> Today i have attended the debate leaded by Margot Wallstrom, the vice-president of the European Commission, under the topic of ” EU Communication After the Irish “No”. Mrs. Wallström generally talked about the effect of Irish ‘ No ‘ in to other European Union countries, the elections in United States and the power of Internet for the PR of… Read more →

>In nearly all European countries, democracy is our system, it is the structure of our society. But it is not the essence of our society; the essence are we ourselves, the people. In a real democracy, we must constantly remind ourselves of the fact that “democracy” is not a magic formula that generates justice and good governance, but that it… Read more →