On January 10, JEF Brussels organised their yearly New Years reception in local bar Zonneklop, a favourite meeting point of the section. It was a moment to look back at 2018 and look forward to upcoming events in 2019. In 2018, JEF Belgium was partnering in the Enjoy Your Future project and JEF Brussels was especially active to make this project […]
After a couple days of rest, it is time to look back at the amazing weekend we had in Liège at the JEF Belgium Training Days. The 2018 edition – The Devil Wears Populism – was franed around the theme of debunking fake news and false narratives and building political narratives. After an informal Friday night to get to know each other […]
For the second Federal Committee of 2018, JEF Europe brought the challenge to whole new level, organizing it on a boat connecting Sweden and Finland by night! After a very interesting panel debate on the topic of smart cities, and how to design efficient and sustainable cities for the future, we as part of the 100 participants coming from all-around […]
On September 12, it was BINGO time! As Jean-Claude Juncker gave his last official State of the European Union with his vision for the future of Europe, JEF Brussels gathered (a lot of) young people to play a bingo game linked to Juncker’s speech. Afterwards, it was time to discuss our own vision for the future of Europe, which was […]
20 June 2018 | How to kill two birds with one stone and empower young people who are passionate about Europe by giving them skills and knowledge? Organise a book club! JEF Brussels organised a small event with the aim to have deep discussion around the five topics that are part of the Enjoy Your Future project (youth, employment, integration, borders and […]
It won’t be easy to summarise how wonderful and exciting this third edition of European Youth Event was! More than 8000 young people from all around Europe ?, more than 300 JEF members, proudly wearing our green and blue colours and debating the need for a Federal Europe! There is no greater feelings than to realise that your fight is shared by so […]
14 February 2018 | Spending time with your significant other on Valentine’s day? That’s what we did! We <3 Europe Instead of spending time having a nice dinner, drinking some wine and eating amazingly delicious Belgian chocolates, JEF Brussels came up with a better way to spend Valentine’s day: a training on how to spread the love for Europe on social […]
7 February 2018 | It’s still more than a year before the European elections in May 2019, but it is never too early to discuss the future of European integration. In the framework of the Enjoy Your Future Project, JEF Brussels organised a debate with two expert speakers to discuss the differences between European and Belgian federalism and how they […]
31 January 2018 | Visitors in Brussels! An exciting field trip of 60 German youngsters was the perfect time to inspire them to transform their ideas for the future of Europe into concrete recommendations. We promoted the Enjoy Your Future game as a basis for discussions on different European topics. We mainly discussed the themes youth and employment, because the German participants […]
On January 11, JEF Brussels gathered for the first social event of the year. On this occasion we thought that – since a huge turnout was expected – it would be the perfect moment to introduce the Enjoy Your Future project. Indeed it was, and Ine Tollenaers took the lead explaining to attending youngsters what the game was, why it […]