Guillermo Macia Diaz was also one of the organisers of the Spring Agora Alicante 2011 and a board member of his antenna. He tells us that AEGEE has changed his life completely by easing him to improve English language and to find a work thanks to the contacts he has cultivated inside the students association. The AEGEEan:Can you tell us… Read more →
Maarten de Groot, member of AEGEE-Amsterdam is the Manager of “Think before you Vink”, a campaign on behalf of AEGEE in the run-up to the referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which will be held on April 6th. We asked him for more info about this campaign and the activities concerning this topic. During the Network Meeting (NWM) in Delft,… Read more →
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To Brexit or not to Brexit: that is the question. Though this be Brexit, yet there is method in‘t. Can one desire too much of a Brexit? The thing we call a Brexit would be just the same if we called it by any other name. Despite the badly quoted bits of Shakespeare, people do wonder: should the United Kingdom… Read more →
Splintered politics and the surge of far-right parties in the Slovak Parliament prove that the people of Slovakia have lost trust in traditional politics and seek whatever change from the former status quo. Right-wing parties made modest gains in the election and, while the centrist-right parties fared far better, some far-right parties also gained a significant amount of seats in the Slovak Parliament. During… Read more →
AEGEEans come in numerous and wonderful varieties. It’s hard to find anything wrong or hilarious about most of them, but we’ve dug deep and found six remarkable types of AEGEEans. Together these six types might one day end up in a sitcom that’s situated in, let’s say, for example, a Community College. However, before we give these different types of AEGEEans… Read more →
Right after EPM Leiden, members of Democracy in Practice gathered in Brussels to finalise content restructuring, designed to bring the project closer to locals and to expand communication channels. The team now hails from eight different countries. Team members were attracted to the project for several reasons: after observing the low turnout at European Parliament elections and low youth civic participation in… Read more →
Spring Agora Bergamo starts on the 18th of May this year, and its arrival is solemnly heralded by its many Facebook invites and by those of the Pre-Agora events. If you go to the Agora, you can go directly or you can go via one of the six Pre-Agora events (or just go to one of the six Pre-Agora events,… Read more →
We all know that “AEGEE strives for a democratic, diverse and borderless Europe, which is socially, economically and politically integrated […]”. But what kind of political and economic models do we have in mind when we say this? Are we federalists? Do we wish to see a Europe of regions? Is common currency the best way to go? European high-level politicians,… Read more →
Members of AEGEE… these legendary creatures with their own rituals that they might be as a sect (minus the mystic leader). We are aware that we use a different language full of abbreviations: CT, KT, PT, PM, CM, NWM, EPM, JC, CD etc., but we also repeat some sentences, to us or to strangers. Here are six things that we… Read more →
