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How to Fight Nationalism

July 15, 2016

Guy Verhofstadt, unsurprisingly, claims that the solution to Europe’s nationalism problem is further European federalism. While this statement is partially true, it is misleading and, therefore, I must disagree. A federal Europe would have the tools to combat nationalism (and it’s leftist counterpart) as well as having the virtue of being more resistant to propaganda… » read more

Posted by C Shannon

blogactiv, Future EU, Global Europe, Languages & Culture, Social Europe & Jobs, UK in Europe

How to convey the EU and have fun on the way

June 16, 2016

Guest blog post by Hanna Pienczykowska, Director General of Model European Union Warsaw. The population of the EU exceeds 500 million of people and the area that it covers is more than 4 million square kilometers. That’s a lot. Moreover, the Union consists of 28 member states that also have different political systems. National politics… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020

Connectivity and the European Dream

June 1, 2016

On April 27th, the 1989 Generation Initiative, or ‘89ers’ presented visions and proposals on the future of the European Union at the European Parliament, to an audience of MEPs, think tank professionals and young Europeans. The core message: The EU should always aim to improve its citizens’ lives. Their aspirations and livelihoods should be placed… » read more

Posted by 1989 Generation Initiative

blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise

Education for all, no generation left behind

May 24, 2016

Guest blog post by Katrien Alen, educational sciences student at the Catholic University of Leuven. While in the western society, education is focusing on internationalization and the global war on talents, other areas in the world are still facing serious problems with their provision of education. When we take a look around the globe, we… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv

Europe’s broadcaster in crisis

April 25, 2016

Following a raid at the Vienna house of Ukrainian oligarch Dmitro Firtash on Thursday (21 April), the future of the Ukrainian edition of Euronews appears uncertain. Firtash bought the Ukrainian service last year. Firtash was arrested in March 2014 in Austria on US charges. He was then released after being ordered to pay €125m bail,… » read more

Posted by Heard in Europe

blogactiv

DaarDaar crée des passerelles entre Flamands et francophones

Il existe de nombreuses différences entre Flamands et francophones de Belgique. Ces différences font la force de la Belgique et DaarDaar, le site d’information en ligne est là pour renforcer l’échange entre ces deux communautés. Faire un Erasmus dans son propre pays, cela vous paraît surréaliste ? En Belgique, c’est possible! Né dans la région… » read more

Posted by L'actu de Flandre pour les francophones

blogactiv, EurActiv.fr

A EU Sport Integrity Day to restore the image of dirty world of sport

April 18, 2016

Match fixing is undoubtedly one of the major threat to sport and Europe is currently one of the most affected continents by this problem. That is the reason why the Federation of European players and athletes, EU Athletes, committed itself to tackle the issue in setting up every year, on April 15, a “EU… » read more

Posted by Sport et Citoyenneté

blogactiv

Opening up EurActiv’s media innovation programme

March 29, 2016

EurActiv.com is opening one of its media innovations to other media interested in increasing competitiveness through translated syndication. EurActiv has been a digital media innovator since its birth, as I pointed out when I returned for my current part-time gig here. So I should not have been surprised to see my colleagues’ names in this… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, InfoSociety, Languages & Culture, Online Public Space

On ne peut sortir indemne des derniers sommets européens.

March 14, 2016

par Emmanuel Morucci Peut-on sortir indemne du sommet des Chefs d’états et de gouvernement des 28 pays membres qui s’est tenu ce lundi à Bruxelles? Sans doute pas. Pas sûr, en effet, que les citoyens européens s’y retrouvent. Encore moins certain que ces derniers augmentent leur degré de confiance dans le projet européen. J’utilise volontiers… » read more

Posted by Morucci Europe Blog

Actualité de l'Union européenne, blogactiv, Chroniques Europe sur RCF, CITOYENNETE EUROPEENNE, Education, EU Priorities 2020, EU Priorities and Opinion, EurActiv.fr, Justice & Home Affairs, Languages & Culture

EPP celebrates Women’s day with make-up, jewels and nuns

March 9, 2016

International Women’s Day has a bit of a translation problem. In men-dominated France, it has long been denied any plural. People call it “Journée de LA femme”, referring to the abstract idea of womanhood, whatever that is. “Women are concrete and real, but the woman is vague” as Najat Vallaud Belkacem, the education minister puts… » read more

Posted by Heard in Europe

blogactiv

Dual Careers in Sports

February 12, 2016

How to manage the dual career for athletes is a recurrent question. During the past few years it has become a major preoccupation, both at the national and the European level. Various pieces of research have shown how hard it is for top-level sportsmen and sportswomen to combine a sporting career with… » read more

Posted by Sport et Citoyenneté

blogactiv

Pourquoi l’Europe n’utiliserait pas la langue qu’elle comprend le plus ?

January 25, 2016

Guest blog post by Alexandre Rousset, promoteur du “latin moderne”. Voyant la frénésie actuelle pour l’anglais, langue d’aucun pays du continent européen (hormis Gibraltar) mais supposée le meilleur outil pour sa communication internationale, on se demande pourquoi n’est pas plus développée la langue qui se comprend le plus et le mieux en Europe de l’ouest… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Languages & Culture

EurActiv’s top 20 finance and social media news of 2015

December 17, 2015

As this week guest blogger, EurActiv has prepared a list of our best read 2015 editorial coverage of financial markets and social media from across Europe for you to enjoy during the upcoming holiday. For more similar news, read EurActiv’s Euro and Finance, Digital, Trade and Society and Innovation and Industry Sections and sign up… » read more

Posted by Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores

blogactiv, Euro & Finance, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise

Multilingual, domain-specific data analytics

December 15, 2015

When a small or medium sized enterprise has developed a great language technology application for English it is often a major investment to enable comparable functionality in other languages and launch it in countries where English is not the first language. But is it worth it – doesn’t everybody speak English nowadays? A report from… » read more

Posted by Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores

blogactiv, Euro & Finance, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise