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A week of clearing up Taksim
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What started as a protest against the tearing down of a park and quickly became a nationwide uprising of Turkish youth is now brutally being cleared by the police. After a weekend with a festival atmosphere at Taksim Square, the big hangover comes o...
The things we do for Europe
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Remember the "Agora" that took place about a month ago in Mannheim? Let us show you some of the fun, interesting and diverse topics which were covered during the event – from healthy eating habits to fighting xenophobia, from entrepreneurs...
"This should have happened a long time ago"
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Over the past weeks Turkey has seen a great number of street protests and demonstrations in its biggest cities, from Istanbul to Ankara, Izmir and Antalya. Starting from a small demonstration the protests have grown significantly in size and structur...
A Matter of Language, A Matter of Conflict II
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"Latvian culture and language are in the happy position of having a state which protects 'Latvianness' and helps it to survive" - said Ints Dālderis, Latvia’s former Minister of Culture in an interview with E&M. On 18th of February, 20...
Dessert-praising and role-switching. Day 3 at MEU Strasbourg live and in colour
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Topic switching at MEU Strasbourg on the third day: after the Council of the European Union has passed a favourable resolution on the accession of Croatia, it now rests on the Parliament to deal with the issue. At the same time, to keep everyone busy...
"There is no consensus yet" – Starring day 2 at MEUS
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Day two has just started – "There is no consensus yet," says Morten Munch, UK delegate at the Council of the European Union. However, Maros Demovic, Bulgaria, feels he expresses the opinion of the majority of the Council members in saying that...
Croatian Challenges, Single Market Piracy and Alsatian Carbon Footprints. Starring MEU Strasbourg – Day One
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Simulating the EU is not exactly an easy task. Thus one week ago, MEU Strasbourg started with a preparatory day, during which the future MEPs and delegates were briefed once more on the topics to be discussed in the following days, had the chance to...
ETC Spring Tour, day 7: Theatre and long term relationships
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I put off writing about the last day of the ETC Spring Tour because I didn't want to do it. I knew it was going to be nostalgic and mushy, and it was going to confirm what has already happened – the tour is over and so is our time together in t...
Simulating is not malingering. E&M at MEUS
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E&M at MEUS" />There are a lot more MUNs than MEUs out there, but there is only one MEUS, and since MEUS is a MUST, E&M is there to cover it. E&M would not be E&M if it did not dismantle those cryptic abbreviations. Those who have...
ETC Spring Tour, day 6: Mephisto, I mean, manifesto
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Day six of the ETC Spring Tour found us working very hard on the way to Bratislava, Slovakia. After a fiery Monday, the members of our group made a commitment to each other to think about ways to work together and create an artistic product that is r...
ETC Spring Tour, day 5: Of Driving Jails and Flying Ideas
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When we saw the programme of the theatre tour – the eight cities, seven days deal – we started thinking about a deadline when everyone would explode. Most of us thought day three was a sensible day to explode on as it was the hardest: the...
We the citizens
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I believe it was Socrates who said "I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world." This idea never seemed as true as it does today, in a globalized world and even more so living in a Europe where the different nations, citizens and st...
ETC Spring Tour, day 4: budgeting the future?
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And on the fourth day they staged a play on the bus and it was good. The ETC group left Zurich early in the morning and had a long drive to the Tuscan town of Prato. Given that the members of the caravan already feel like family after travelling tog...
ETC Spring Tour, day 3: What's behind the tour?
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I don't know about your weekend, but we on the ETC Spring Tour managed to see two plays in two different countries in just a few hours. Day 3 was exhausting, but then again it gives us many tales to share with you. After leaving Liege, we went back...
Serbia on the Road to EU Accession?
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After ten rounds of negotiations and near failure, Serbia and Kosovo have agreed a pact that opens up the path for Serbia's languishing EU accession. The constellation of events that led to the announcement of the pact on April 19th, i...
ETC Spring Tour, day 2: A portrait of the artist as a young woman
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Time flies when you’re on tour. Day 2 of the ETC Spring experience brought us to the coquette town of Liege in Belgium, discussing how young students can access the theatre industry and find work. Nathanael Harcq, director of the ESACTA School...
ETC Spring Tour, day 1: under the spotlight
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The European Theatre Convention’s (ETC) first ever Spring Tour is in full bloom across the continent. For seven days, a caravan of five young artists, several journalists and ETC members are travelling east to west and north to south in a tour...
"Together for Europe" ... in Mannheim
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You may be looking for Europe in many cities, but right now I’m reporting from the heart of Europe, currently assigned to Mannheim, from the AEGEE-Europe event - Agora Rhein-Neckar - taking place between 2.-7. of April. What is this thin...
Romania and the Horse Meat Scandal
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Horse meat is on everyone’s lips these days. Most likely, literally as well as figuratively. The scandal that started in mid-January and seemed like another endearing phase in Romanian-British relations quickly spread across the continent and a...
The Europe we want for our future
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Imagine travelling across Europe for one month by train to talk to people, and find out young people’s vision of Europe. It's not as impossible as it sounds. Last December six people travelled the old continent to meet students and young people...
