EU Enlargement and the Perception of the Young - Classtests [5A]
Fabris Lucia - 4th Classtest
In the present essay, I will speak first of all about my personal experience in interviewing young people with the aim to interpretate the data collected on EU.
I interviewed ten people, five of theme are between 18 and 20 years old and five of them are above 30-40 years old.
The question posed are about the European Union: about his birth, the citizens, his language the possibility for thee Turkey to enter EU.
Interviewing young people, I understood that the young have very few information about the European Union: they do not know very well why the Union was born, for example;
Then,they do not know the question of Turkey,that wants to enter EU.
But alle the young people agree above the following question: “What and how languages the people most speak in Europe?”
All young people believe that English is fundamental to communicate in Europe.
I understood that young prefer one language and they choose English.
The people over 35,40 years, on the contrary, choose also other language,like as German, Spanish, French and in two singular cases also Latin and Greek.
In connection with the problem of Turkey, the answer are different: somebody agrees with enter, somebody does not agree for different reasons.
I do not agree for example, because in Turkey still exists the death penality.
As for the question of enlargement, the summit of Copenaghen (in the year 1993) singled out three accession criteria: the political engagement for the achievement of institutional stabily in order to guarantee thedemocracy, as well as the respect of fundamental human rights and protectios the minority (political criteria); the existence of accessible market economy in the European Union (economical criteria), the capacity to respect the own obligations and to approve the political,economical and monetary union objectives (adoption of the Community acquis critertia).
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