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JEF international seminar in Malta |
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JEF international seminar in Tarxien, Malta | 17-23 October 2010 “The ultimate solution for a better life: (im)migration?” is an international seminar organised by JEF-Europe and JEF-Malta in Tarxien, a small village in the south east of Malta from 17 until 23 October 2010. When speaking about immigration it is important to make the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. Despite the obvious difference in their legal status, immigrants in both categories often feel unwelcome and excluded from their host societies, which is closely linked to xenophobic attitudes widespread across Europe and openly manifested especially in recent years, but also the lack of adequate policies and assistance of governmental institutions in host countries.
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ECI Lobby Action - Update |
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JEF's
EU-wide lobby action for a more flexible and user-friendly ECI
Regulation
Thanks to article 11(4) of the
Lisbon Treaty a first significant step has been taken by the EU in the
direction of participatory democracy as it will henceforth be possible
for
Citizens to bring their own legislative proposals to the table of EU
policy-makers!
The article situplates: "Not less than one million citizens who are
nationals of a significant number of Member States may take the
initiative of
inviting the European Commission, within the framework of its powers, to
submit
any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens consider that a legal
act of
the Union is required for the purpose of implementing the Treaties."
Yet,
the European Institutions still need to agree on a Regulation that
determines
the technical criteria by which the European Citizens' Initiative
(ECI)
would be made operational so that Citizens could start collecting
signatures
for proposals which they would like to put forward. The European
Commission
launched a consultation in 2009 to which JEF-
Europe replied stating the wishes of JEF members and sections who
gave
their input.
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Report on the EU Citizens' rights conference |
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Report on the EU Citizens' rights conference The conference entitled EU citizens' rights: the way forward took place in Brussels on 1-2 July 2010 and JEF-Europe was there to have its say thanks to outgoing Secretary-General, Peter Matjašič and Vice-President, Pauline Gessant.
Since JEF contributed to the public consultation launched by the European Commission (EC) “EU citizens’ rights: the way forward. How to strengthen the rights stemming from the European Union citizenship”, we were invited to take part in this two days conference aimed at assessing the concrete obstacles Union citizens face in their daily lives and to identify possible solutions to remove these obstacles. |
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Report from the Second Youth Intergroup Meeting |
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Report from the Second Youth Intergroup Meeting
On Tuesday, 8th June 2010, our outgoing Secretary-General Peter was representing JEF at the second meeting of the Youth Intergroup within the European Parliament. If you are wondering what a youth intergroup is please click here http://bit.ly/bvPXcz .
The topic of the meeting was the (in)famous EU2020 strategy and within it the Youth on the Move flagship initiative. The meeting was chaired by the Chair of the Youth Intergroup, French MEP Damien Abad (EPP) and hosted several MEPs that our members of the intergroup, notably the youngest MEP Kateryna Nevedalova (S&D) from Slovakia, Slovenian MEP Milan Zver (EPP), Spanish MEP Eider Gardiazabal (S&D) and others as well as Jonathan Hill from the Commissioner Vassiliou’s cabinet.
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Report on the European Seminar on Youth and Migration |
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Report on the European Seminar on Youth and Migration
In the wonderful city of Salamanca, Spain, the conference “Universalising Rights, Building Citizenship” took place, on issues related to young migrants and their integration in society.
The conference was organised by the Spanish Youth Council as an initiative of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union. The conference was open to members of the Spanish Youth Council as well as European Youth Forum members like JEF-Europe.
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