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Murder of Viktoria Marinova : Freedom of the press threatened in Europe

On Saturday 6 October, the lifeless body of journalist Viktoria Marinova was found by a cyclist in a park in Ruse, the fifth-largest city of Bulgaria located by the Danube river and the Romanian border. Raped and strangled, the young woman, mother of a young girl, seems to have lost her life as a result of violent blows to the head and suffocation.

jeudi 18 octobre 2018

Antonio Tajani on the European project’s future : “We have to be brave”

On 9 October, Antonio Tajani, current President of the European Parliament and member of the European People’s Party (EPP), was invited to speak in front of the students of the College of Europe at the traditional opening ceremony of the Postgraduate Institute in Bruges. Our French sister (...)

mardi 16 octobre 2018

Once Erasmus, always Erasmus ?

The second edition of #Erasmusdays is taking place this weekend ! The two-day event celebrates mobility in Europe and the Erasmus+ programme whose budget for 2014 - 2020 is 14.7 billion euros.

samedi 13 octobre 2018

Why Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia should join the Schengen Area

Last spring, the European Parliament reiterated its support for the “immediate accession” of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area, as well as that of Croatia, as soon as the accession criteria are met. The European Commission, however, already gave a green light for Bulgaria and Romania to (...)

mercredi 10 octobre 2018

Postcards from Slovenia and Gozo

This summer, you can read our French sister edition Le Taurillon’s summer print version edited for JEF-France’s Europe En Vacances project. It’s an occasion to get readers to travel around with the help of postcards. Today’s postcards come from Slovenia and Gozo ! Slovenia, between the sea and the (...)

mercredi 22 août 2018

Postcard from Cyprus

This summer, you can read our French sister edition Le Taurillon’s summer print version edited for JEF-France’s Europe En Vacances project. It’s an occasion to get readers to travel around with the help of postcards. Today’s postcard comes from Cyprus !

vendredi 17 août 2018

Sylvie Guillaume : “We need to stop being hysterical about the different crises and find concrete solutions”

In Le Taurillon’s interview, Vice-President of the European Parliament Sylvie Guillaume discusses youth policy, women in politics, and challenges ahead for the current European Parliament.

mardi 14 août 2018

The most remote places of the EU : Lampedusa

Politically Italian, geographically African. The island of Lampedusa belongs to the Sicilian province of Agrigento, but it is located only 113 kilometres from the Tunisian coast, and is therefore part of the African tectonic plate. Because of its proximity to North Africa, Lampedusa has become globally known as the “refugee island” in the last few years. Some 21,000 refugees land on the shores of this island whose reception centre can officially only accommodate 800 people.

mardi 7 août 2018

The most remote places of the EU : Curaçao

Four of the 24 official languages of the EU are spoken on the Caribbean island of Curaçao : Dutch, English, Spanish and Portuguese. In addition to that, there’s the Papiamento creole language that is a mixture of all of these four European languages. The island that belongs to the Kingdom of the Netherlands is inhabited by people from more than 50 nationalities.

lundi 6 août 2018

The most remote places of the EU : Réunion

“I am not white, no I’m not black”, sings Danyel Waro in his song Batarsité. In these few words, the icon of traditional maloya music summarised the spirit of the island. Continents come together in Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

samedi 4 août 2018

In Helsinki, the EU is conspicuous by its absence

The 21st edition of the FIFA World Cup ended in Russia on Sunday with the coronation of France, and some football experts talk about European domination having been ongoing since 2006. However, the EU seemed totally invisible the following day in Helsinki where Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met on 16 July.

jeudi 19 juillet 2018

The European history of the tie

Nowadays, the tie is an essential piece of clothing for men. But who can lay claim to being behind the tie, whose long history stretches across multiple centuries and is, to say the least, exciting and fundamentally European ? Originated in Croatia The history of the tie began with the Thirty (...)

dimanche 15 juillet 2018

Translated by Juuso Järviniemi

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