20 May 2010: We have launched a new discussion platform for the 2010 Generation Europe Youth Summit on Green Entrepreneurship. Most of our community activities and efforts will be focused on the Summit over the coming months, so we encourage you to get involved by registering on the Summit website.
Are Water Wars soon to become a reality? How can the numerous causes of water scarcity best be addressed? Do you believe that the privatisation of water will improve the situation or only make it worse? Can our planet’s water supply maintain the current levels of population growth?
“Water scarcity ‘now bigger threat than financial crisis’”, “World heading for ‘water bankruptcy’”: if these dramatic headlines are anything to go by, humankind is facing a looming disaster. Not climate change, not another financial crash, not terrorism but water scarcity will bring us to our knees. Whereas talk of water wars and impending doom may seem exaggerated, water scarcity is at the source of many of the contemporary problems we read about every day. read more…
By Charles Kupchan, Washington Post, 29 August 2010
The European Union is dying — not a dramatic or sudden death, but one so slow and steady that we may look across the Atlantic one day soon and realize that the project of European integration that we’ve taken for granted over the past half-century is no more.
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Interview by Matthie Amaré, cafebabel, 27 August 2010
In her soon-to-be-adopted youth unemployment rapport, the 26-year-old Dane has surely rewritten the tune of an infernal chorus. At 26, who better than the youngest member of the current European parliament to discuss a disenchanted population?
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By Tanya de Grunwald, The Guardian, 17 August 2010
Are any big companies willing to condemn publicly the practice of exploiting the vast army of young, unpaid workers we’ve come to call “interns”?
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Source: Jeremy Brooks via flickr
Generation Europe Foundation is looking for English-Swedish and English-Dutch/Flemish translators for the next edition of the Europa Diary. This is a 9-month project, running from October 2010 until June 2011. The application deadline is 3 September.
Further details and application packs are available here.
By Presseurop, 17 August 2010
…le chômage chez les 15-24 ans a atteint le nombre le plus élevé depuis la Seconde guerre mondiale. D’après une étude de l’Office international du travail (OIT), 5 millions des jeunes Européens étaient sans emploi en 2009.
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By Ann Meyer, Chicago Tribune, 9 August 2010
“It’s hard with the job market just to keep my motivation up,” said Berman, expressing a sentiment shared by thousands of young adults whose hopes for landing dream jobs have been dashed by a slow economic recovery.
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There are 20 places available for members of the Generation Europe Community, between the ages of 20 and 25, to attend a three-day summer school on the European Landscape Convention from 25 until 27 August 2010 in Milan, Italy. “The young and the European Landscape Convention: on the eve of the Xth anniversary of CEP” is organised by the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic. All expenses will be covered by the event organisers, except for travel to/from Milan, and participants can receive university credit. Note: interpretation will only be provided in Italian and French at the conference.
To apply: please send a motivation letter and your CV to cristina@generation-europe.eu before 10 August 2010.
By Alex Steffen, Worldchanging, 16 June 2010
And oil spills are far from the worst environmental disasters we’ve unleashed and are in the process of unleashing through the routine operation of our economy as currently designed.
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By Laura Rozen, Politico, 9 July 2010
With the spy swap orchestrated on the Vienna tarmac this morning looking like it was out of a Cold War spy flick central casting, it’s perhaps no surprise that the CIA and Russian foreign intelligence service at the heart of the rolled up network played lead roles in the swap.
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BBC News, 21 June 2010
Poland’s presidential election is heading for a second round, with no single candidate getting enough votes to win Sunday’s first round outright.
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