EU Enlargement and the Perception of the Young - Classtests [5A]
Proietti Giulia - 4th Classtest
The aim of my short essay is to discuss the problems posed by the title. The Copenhagen European council established in 1993 the fundamental criteria to create a better cooperation among the Member states of the European Union. the countries that shall become members of the E.U. to respect such criteria but this represents a problem: a lot of people can/ can not agree with the criteria and this creates more and more doubts if or not a state is entitled to enter in E.U. My work in interviewing young people was very interesting because by posing a question “ What do you know about the E.U.?” to young people (16-35) I could understand how many people are conscious of what the European Union is. A lot of people didn’t want to answer my question others answered in superficial and incorrect way, only a short limited numbers of people answered in clear, appropriate and complex, specific way. From my 10 interviews people, I only found 2 brothers who have rich knowledge about the E.U.. very interesting is that both graduated in law, the information probably depends on the levels of education. The most felt difficulties were to find young people that wanted to answer of that felt able; this aspect explains how much indifference and ignorance is present in the world about E.U. People don’t read and don’t want to read and don’t want to have a lot of information about the E.U., even if it will also change their future. The second problem is that people don’t feel themselves E.U. citizens because they are not integrated with the spirit of E.U. The third critical problem of no knowledge is the lack of a complex and rich information about the process of the European Union by the media: journalists, radios and televisions giving objective information in their articles. My practical proposals are: 1) people should become aware, 2) people had to read and attend dedicated conferences, 3) the media should dedicate more space to the information of the process of E.U. enlargement.