Comité Directeur

CD Telegram July 2012

  Marko Grdošić  – President July made Brussels quite calm, and the level of meetings went down. The last one happening was with the Coalition of Civil Society organizations on the Erasmus for All proposal. From the beginning of the year, we have been working a lot on lobbying for our space inside of the proposal, stronger youth inclusion, recognition of… Read more →

From Brussels to Strasbourg

In most of the booklets, documents and presentations we are proudly saying that AEGEE has a participatory status at the Council of Europe. Have you ever wondered what it actually means? The Council of Europe is an institution that has for sure marked AEGEE the most on our road. The Council of Europe strives for human rights, democracy and participation… Read more →

Do you ever wonder what the future EU youth programmes will look like?

Do you want to know if there will be the space and opportunity for young people and youth organizations to develop in the EU? On the 27th March, the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) organised a public hearing to discuss about the future Education and Youth programme and the proposal of “Erasmus for All”.  The Members of the European… Read more →

Social Innovation: An unconventional story, don’t dare to read.

(Last week I represented AEGEE-Europe in a social hearing on Social Innovation. Here is some food for thought as the outcome of couple of hours spent there.) Governments, academics, private sectors, they are all trying to survive and solve this infamous ‘times of crisis’. But there doesn’t seem to be any progress. Although politicians are trying to convince us with… Read more →

Youth Rise for Peace!

“I object to violence because when it appears to do well, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent” says Ghandi. How many times that statement has been proved to be true recently? How many times we have witnessed how bloody the hand of so called good could be? Our generation has been watching the Arab World… Read more →

The way forward?

Three members of the External Relations Department took a field trip to a chique conference of BusinessEurope, the umbrella for Chambers’ of Commerce all over Europe. Despite the presence of some fancy speakers (amongst which 3 European Commissioners), a nice new report, their 50th anniversary and it being a sunny autumn day; the mood was somewhat depressed amongst these business… Read more →