You might have recognised Réka Salamon from AEGEE’s website, where she is already on the team page as Vice-President and Project director. She decided to take one step further, using all her previously acquired knowledge in several teams and projects, and run as a President of AEGEE-Europe. Her journey has started in 2011 in AEGEE-Debrecen, where she was a Vice-President & Public… Read more →
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Pablo Hernandez Rodriguez, Presidential Candidate: “The President has to Motivate the Team Members to Keep Believing in the Common Project”
Pablo Hernandez Rodriguez is currently External Relations Director and he decided he wanted to continue his work for AEGEE by running as a President. He has a Master degree in Law but, as he thinks that ” AEGEE as a European Students’ Forum should keep the student perspective”, he is studying for a second Master in European affairs. He will… Read more →
Svenja van der Tol for Secretary General: “There is Always a Way for Doing Things, Even if it May Look Impossible”
Here we met Svenja again, running for a second term as Secretary General. Member of AEGEE-Nijmegen since 2012, she already had experience on the European level being Editor of The AEGEEan, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Key to Europe and Secretary of the Agora. Between new ideas and unicorns, she’s ready to step on again and commit for another year for AEGEE. Let’s meet her and… Read more →
Agora Reform Task Force: the Future Rules About Elections in Every Agora
Svenja Van Der Tol is the Secretary General of AEGEE-Europe and also one of the most experienced journalists of our magazine. In this article, she will tell us about the new proposals which tend to innovate the rules about the elections for AEGEE European bodies. But the work is not finished yet and a big group is involved in this activity. The… Read more →
Maryana Semenyak for Member of the Comité Directeur: “Our Power is in Our Diversity”
Energetic and passionate, Maryana stepped up to fill the gap left in June in the composition of the Comité Directeur. Member of AEGEE-Lviv, at her first European level experience, but with a strong motivation to do great things in Brussels: let’s read how she sees her upcoming year in Brussels! The AEGEEan: Who’s Maryana? What don’t we already know about you?… Read more →
Lucia Gavulová for Project Manager of SUCT: “I Want to Share My Knowledge and Make It Possible for All Locals to Organise a SU”
Lucia Gavulová is a 25 years old Slovakian born, now living in Aachen. President of AEGEE-Bratislava, she joined AEGEE more than three years ago becoming an active member (as well as board member) very quickly. She has a master in Molecular Biology, but now she is working for one of the biggest IT companies in the world (she still enjoys… Read more →
Claudio Armandi for Chairperson: “I Have the Energy and the Willingness to Commit to Another Task in AEGEE”
Claudio Armandi has been active on European level in many different positions. Besides his local activities, he has been a Network Commissioner and a member of the Mediation Commission for two terms. Now he is striving for something new, and is running for Chairperson. Read on to find out about his previous experiences, his motivation and aims. The AEGEEan: Claudio,… Read more →
Election Observation Project is ready to rock in 2015!
During Autumn Agora Cagliari, the Election Observation Project was established as an official project of AEGEE-Europe. After having organised five missions in Scotland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and two in Ukraine, the project is already preparing new missions for 2015. We spoke with the Project Manager Thomas Leszke (AEGEE-Köln), Content Manager and Publication Responsible Marije Arentze (AEGEE-Leiden) and Fundraising Responsible… Read more →
Moldovan elections: what was at stake, what we observed, and what might happen
On the 1st of December, Moldova woke up with the results of the parliamentary elections that would decide the direction that this small landlocked country would have taken. Bordering a European Union member state (Romania) and Ukraine, Moldova faces a similar challenge as their Eastern Partnership neighbours: keeping their ties with Russia, or pushing towards Europe? Arrived in Chișinău, one could… Read more →
Survival vs. Citizenship: Turkey’s Presidential elections
Consider this article not as a professional evaluation, but as a letter of a curious citizen who is in limbo, just like her country. By discussing rights and wrongs of political parties, or thesis such as the rise of political Islam, or failure of leftist tradition we could contribute to endless discussions going on social and mass media. Or better:… Read more →