
Thousands protest Hungary university bill
Protesters reportedly called on Hungarian president Janos Ader to veto a bill that would close down Central European University in Budapest.
Friday
25th Aug 2017

Protesters reportedly called on Hungarian president Janos Ader to veto a bill that would close down Central European University in Budapest.

British academics want to guarantee residency and work rights for their EU staff, as well as "enhanced mobility opportunities" for UK and EU students, mostly by keeping British participation in EU funding programs.
The European Commission proposes a €341-million budget to get unemployed people into volunteering activities or traineeships that “promote solidarity” in their own countries or abroad.
EU leaders said there would be almost a million ICT vacancies by 2015, and made digital skills a priority, but in reality the number of vacancies was much lower.
Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, wants to see the closure of Central European University with recent legislative changes. But his actions are truly difficult to justify when thinking as a patriot.

Finding a suitable successor is a problem for many ageing European farmers, but according to the European Court of Auditors it is unclear how EU funds help to address the problem.

The head of the Central European University wants the European Commission to prevent the Hungarian government from shutting it down.

The European Commission will analyse the new higher education bill and consider infringement procedures by the end of April.

EPP group leader Manfred Weber calls for the European Commission to investigate Hungary, but the centre-right party still stands by prime minster Orban in the wake of international uproar over legislation targeting the Central European University.
Thousands gathered around the Central European University on Tuesday to protest against a legislative bill that targets it, while the US embassy and the German president expressed their support for the institution.
In 2015, 58.8 percent of all EU pupils at lower secondary level were being taught two or more languages at school. A year earlier, that figure was 59.9 percent.
The EU ombudsman's slapdown of the EU diplomatic service's unpaid internship programs offers a glimmer of hope to a future of paid internships in Europe.
Internships in the EU foreign service can help young people to build their career, so they should be open to anyone, not only those who can afford them, the EU ombudsman Emily O'Reilly said.
Young people will gather in Brussels on Monday to protest against hundreds of unpaid traineeships offered by the EU institutions each year.
It falls to the Europeans who were born around 1989 and grew up in a peaceful Europe to build a fresh new vision for the EU that transcends the ideological, educational and national cleavages of the past.
Estonian and Finnish high school students do best at science out of the EU according to a study by the OECD, a Paris-based club of industrialised nations.
Young people have been sold down the river by this year's political events, but it's not too late for Europe to safeguard the future for the world's youth.
The French are the worst at speaking English in the EU, according to a survey of 950,000 people, which ranks the Netherlands and Denmark as the best.

Although some EU states cut spending on education in 2014, most poured in more money, says the EU commission.

Nordic troops ought to learn French to better contribute to UN peace missions in future, security experts and politicians have been told.
Students will soon be able to move into converted shipping containers in Gothenburg. Architects hope to spread their idea of cheap, waterside living across Europe.
EU commission wants to spend another €2 billion on creating jobs for young people, but lack of data on who gets what from the scheme poses questions.

The way forward to ensure the protection of children globally is through a long list of small steps that governments must take to ensure no child in Europe or anywhere else suffers a life of abuse, exploitation or fear.

Six decades of academic cooperation between the UK and Germany is now at risk, says German academic body.
British, German and Dutch institutions do very well in the latest university rankings, with Oxford named the world's best. But the French and much of the rest of the EU are lagging behind.
A new OECD report shows "a wide scale of divergence" between school systems in the EU.

Europe adds a layer of identity that enriches its citizens. The post-Brexit EU should do more to foster it, through programmes like Erasmus.

Campaigners say young Europeans need better quality jobs and contracts, after a UN agency documents how hundreds of thousands of young workers risk living in poverty.
In Brussels, the unthinkable in our supposedly modern societies – unpaid labour – has become the new normal.
The European Parliament's building in Strasbourg should be turned into European University instead of the monthly "travelling circus" of MEPs.