Not so long ago the Elections Observation Project (EOP) of AEGEE, which aims at training potential election observers and creating a sufficient capacity within AEGEE for international election observation missions, brought forward the initiative to be more involved in the recent European Parliament elections besides voting. This involvement in the elections got translated in becoming a volunteer, member of the… Read more →
During the Spring Agora Patra, six new members of the NetCom were elected, namely: Ana Potočnik (AEGEE-Ljubljana), Balázs Kovács (AEGEE-Debrecen), Burak Topaloğlu (AEGEE-Eskisehir), Lia Tuska (AEGEE-Sofia), Maria Arends (AEGEE-Groningen) and Natalia Ivleva (AEGEE-Voronezh). After the resignation of Holger Schmitt, newly elected member of Comité Directeur, Julia Fuss (AEGEE-Mannheim) got assigned the job of NetCom Assistant until the next Agora. The… Read more →
In a few days, Ukraine will get to vote to choose their president for the next 5 years. After the recent happenings in Ukraine, from the protests at Maidan square till the recent independence referendums in Crimea and Sevastopol, on the 25th of May Ukrainians will have to choose from 21 candidates who will lead the Country, and where… Read more →
Réka Salamon is a 23 years old girl from Debrecen. Hungarian by nationality (her first local was AEGEE-Debrecen), German by adoption (she moved in Cologne and she joined AEGEE-Aachen), she is running for the position of President of AEGEE-Europe. If elected, she is going to be the first female President since Agata Pateka from AEGEE- Poznań (2009-2010). She is currently… Read more →
This Spring Agora Patra already looks legendary, with many outstanding candidates for the most important positions. One of the candidates, Claudio Gennaro from AEGEE-Cagliari, runs for one of the positions at the Juridical Commission (JC), and now you have the opportunity to meet him before Agora starts! The AEGEEan: As we traditionally start our interviews, please tell our readers about… Read more →
Bartosz Sudorowski, or Bartek, has been a member of AEGEE-Zielona Góra since february 2010 and is very active on a local level ever since. At Autumn Agora Budapest he was elected Network Commissioner and now he aims to be the new Network Director of AEGEE-Europe. Let’s discover more about him. The AEGEEan: Can you tell a little bit more about… Read more →
Burak Topaloglu, from AEGEE-Eskişehir, is running for the position of Network Commissioner in Spring Agora Patra 2014. I had an amazing opportunity to get to know him better as a person when he was participant in AEGEE-Kyiv’s TSU “Big Kyiv Theory” and heard lots about his great job as president of the local, but now it’s time for you to know… Read more →
Being lucky to meet Holger Schmitt, from AEGEE-Berlin, as participant of AEGEE-Kyiv, AEGEE-Kharkiv and AEGEE-Lviv TSU “Hogwarts express”, seeing how he was elected as Network Commissioner and now, running for Comité Directeur really made me excited about interviewing him. Hopefully this conversation will give you more information right before it is time to vote! Anna: First of all, Holger, congratulations… Read more →
Who observes if democracy works? How does election observation work in international organisations? And should there be an election observation procedure within AEGEE? To answer these questions, AEGEE members Alin-Florin Calin (AEGEE-Wien) and Thomas Leszke (AEGEE-Köln) decided to launch the Election Observation Project during Agora Zaragoza. Almost five months later, the first project meeting took place in Köln from the 7th… Read more →
Youth unemployment is on the main agenda in many EU member states, particularly in Greece, Spain and Portugal, where an alarming number of young people are unemployed. The YVote2014 Convention in Agrigento addressed this topic with 25 people from different EU contries. Youth unemployment is on the agenda of all European governments, and also of the European Union. In order… Read more →
