Lost Millennials Welcome to the closing issue of the Lost Millennials project newsletter! Read on to learn about the project’s final conference and the main research results. The project is aiming to enhance the successful integration of 25+ NEETs into the labour market, education, and training, while at the same time improving evaluation practices of […]
Lost MillennialsWelcome to the first edition of the Lost Millennials newsletter, with all the latest project updates. Read on to learn more about our aims, the launch of the project website and the release of the country reports focusing on policy context addressing 25+ NEETs.
Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Political Party held ⅔ of parliamentary seats since 2010 giving it a ‘super majority’ allowing it the power to change fundamental laws in its favour, most notably the election laws – on April 3rd’s general election they secured yet another supermajority.
Guest post by Eva Maydell (Paunova), MEP A crude piece of graffiti adorns a street wall in Sofia, Bulgaria. ‘If elections changed anything, they’d be outlawed’ it reads. It has been there since the early 90s, back when the country’s sharply bi-polar political system and its tokens were ripe for parody. 25 years later, the […]
This week I made a quick trip to Sofia, Bulgaria at the invitation of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom for Southeast Europe . In Sofia, I facilitated working sessions of the Steering Committee of the Liberal South East European Network (LIBSEEN). The network is part of the […]
For International Women’s Day 2016, we invited Italian Member of the European Parliament, Barbara Matera to share her thoughts on why there is still much to do to reach ‘Planet 50-50’. Today we mark International Women’s Day, an occasion to look back on the past century of the fight for women’s rights and look forward to […]
Written by BCI’s Matthew Lowell, a version of this opinion piece appeared in today’s Times of Malta. It has been reproduced with the permission of the newspaper. British Prime Minister David Cameron is in Brussels this week in an attempt to gain approval from European Union leaders on a reform package for Britain’s membership of […]
On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 the European Parliament debated the state of Poland’s democracy. For reporting on the debate, see Politico EU’s coverage. We invited a Polish Member of the European Parliament, Michal Boni, to share his thoughts on this process and the state of Poland’s democracy. The debate in the European Parliament concerning the […]
In recent weeks, there has been discussion of EU efforts to increase the proportion of women in Europe’s boardrooms. The EU Commission proposal will oblige publicly listed companies to ensure that 40 percent of their boards are female. Under the plans being discussed in Brussels, companies would need to set a target of making 40 percent of […]
With this weekend’s EU-Turkey summit, we asked two guest bloggers, who know Turkey well, to share their thoughts on recent elections and what the victory of the Justice and Development Party means for Turkey. AKP: How Understanding Voters and the Opposition Was a Winning Formula – by Elmira Bayrasli Elections are more than […]