Nowadays many people are interested in other cultures. But how to learn about them? The aim of my essay is to speak about learning the language to understand the culture. Let us start considering the understanding another culture by only learning the language. First, if you choose to understand culture by learning a foreign language it’s a good way because in this way you‘ll learn about culture widely. Learning the l

Over the years European Union has become a considerable world power which gives lots of benefits to its member countries and their citizens. Together with virtually non-existent country borders, one of the greatest pros of being in EU is the monetary support. That is very important to the economically weaker countries. But lots of people think that the money is coming for free and it will last forever. It is certainl

Education was always a fundamental material for the building of European Union’s cohesion. According to the official page of the DG EAC: ‘Education and training play a key role in transforming the European Union (EU) into a world-leading knowledge-based society and economy.’ That is the reason why EU has invested and is willing to invest even more money to this field. The main program for education, culture and youth

Talking about difficult times in youth lives, if there was a voting, one period would undoubtedly win one of the top prizes. This period is unavoidable and always tough. Leaving parents’ home and moving to an independent life is always stressful and raises a lot of questions for young people. However, there are some things that could be done to make this life transition easier, and here our governments should start t

The situation on the ground, some estimated 80.000 Russian troops with all military hardware within striking distance of the Ukrainian border. All bases on Crimea under de-facto Russian control, a majority of its populace seemingly in favour and supportive of the reorienting towards Moscow versus Kiev. Occupations and (pro-) demonstrations in Eastern-Ukraine. Some have called this a takeover and an infringement of in

by Augustinas Bilota , Šarūnė Janutaitė , Donata Keršytė , Aistė Rimgailaitė , Viktorija Vosyliūtė It is believed that good education can help to get a good job position. However it is not enough. A lot of people in the world are facing the problem of being unemployed. This problem especially shows up in youth lives. As Angela Merkel highlighted “youth unemployment is most pressing problem facing Europe“(2013).  Acco

Youth unemployment is at the center of interest of European Union (EU) and European Commission (EC). There is a good reason for that. Did you know that around 5.5 million young people are unemployed in European Union? Imagine that in a group of 5 of your friends who are under 25 one of them (maybe even you) is unemployed even though he or she is able to work. Youth unemployment in 2013 in EU on average was 23.3%. Sit

A part of the third article of the European Union Lisbon treaty says that Union `shall promote economic, social and territorial cohesion, and solidarity among Member States.‘ It is linked to the second article that one of the goal of the EU is `the well-being of its peoples.‘ As a tool to establish economic solidarity between all the Member States is the Cohesion Policy which is investments for less developed regions

EXPRESS YOUR OPINION about current political situation, free trade agreements, elections, European history and culture! The aim is to create an online paper made by European young people covering all topics of their interests. Maybe there is something that you want to say but is not covered by the topics mentioned above? TELL US ABOUT IT! HOW IT’S DONE? Write an article (300 – 1000 words), make pictures, videos, inte