Why does Hungary matter? Reaction to the Fourth Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary
Why does Hungary matter? This question was asked recently by the US Helsinki Commission, and also exactly a year ago by the Nobel prize laureate Paul Krugman. Why does Hungary, this small, landlocked country with around 10 million inhabitants in Central Eastern Europe, matter to the US or to any other EU country? However, the recent events, namely the latest,… Read more →
Human rights – a fashionable term or the real issue?
A few weeks ago, policy officers spammed our mailing lists demanding the members to fill in the surveys for their thematic researches. Now is the time to reflect on their results. The survey on human rights recognition, launched within the topic of social inclusion, revealed surprising results. In AEGEE, we state in our principles that we stand for human rights.… Read more →
Comité Directeur Candidate Szabina Hellinger Wants to Offer AEGEE her Work and Motivation
The Agora is approaching and that means it is time to elect the Comité Directeur (CD) again. One of the passionate AEGEE members who hope to move to the new CD house in Brussels is Szabina Hellinger from AEGEE-Budapest. The AEGEEan took the time to interview her and to hear about her plans, but first let us introduce Szabina to… Read more →
How to be a good delegate
Agora Rhein-Neckar is coming up in a few weeks. Every local has selected its delegates, all proposals and candidatures are published and now it is time for the delegates to prepare themselves. Being a delegate is a responsible task; you have to represent your local in the broadest sense of the term and this year’s Chair Team will be more… Read more →
The NetCom Times: AEGEE-Tilburg’s road to success
In September 2012 AEGEE-Tilburg consisted of just two guys. Two experienced members: Tjeerd Kosse and Yunhai Su decided to make a re-start with AEGEE-Tilburg. After a search two new board members joined. First Matei Zamfirescu and right after Sintija Saurina. In October the board was formed with Tjeerd as president, Sintjia as secretary, Yunhai as treasurer and Matei as visuals… Read more →
Hello, World! The story of those who make IT happen in AEGEE
Every day, as AEGEE members, we use the technology, services and applications that are available to us, ranging from browsing a website to get information about a certain Working Group, through sending emails from our aegee.org account, to asking for support when we cannot login to the Intranet. We rely on AEGEE’s IT services to provide the necessary infrastructure for… Read more →
Local of the Month: AEGEE-Patra about their candidature for hosting Spring Agora 2014
This month we award AEGEE-Patra as Local of the Month. This antenna was founded on as they call it one cold night in December ’97; they are no strangers to the AEGEE world and they have had many members active at the European level. Perhaps you have heard of George Dimitrakopoulos, one of the masterminds behind the Information Technology Committee… Read more →
Conflict Resolution Meeting
The scope of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh South Caucasus is a historical region between Russia, Iran and Turkey shared by Azerbaijanis, Armenians and Georgians. Situated in its center Nagorno-Karabakh remained for a long time a unique example of common peaceful co-existence of several ethnics that do not have the same language, religion and views of common history, but lots of common… Read more →
CD Telegram February 2013
In February, despite the cold weather, the Comité Directeur was full of energy and passion. We felt some relief since the biggest and hardest part of the moving has ended during the first weekend, but there was still a lot of work on the house to do to make it feel like our new home. During this short month, we… Read more →