Sports, social work, scouts, political organisations, volunteering work… We have a wide range of choice to participate in society. Still some choose not to do so. Why do they not participate? How can we motivate these people? And the youth that participates, why do they choose to participate in a certain organisation? What does raise their interest? We have had enough food for thought before the seminar.
Today’s tumultuous times are indisputably an enormous challenge for everyone involved in politics. This is true for every policy level, but is even more so for the European Union. Even before the financial crisis (firstly) and the budget crisis (secondly) had hit home, the E.U. had a difficult time in profiling itself as a force for good to – and gaining the trust of – its half a billion constituents. Since the crisis’s the E.U. has had more media coverage, the negative connotation surrounding that attention, however, didn’t boost the public image. To the contrary. The trust and confidence in the European Union and its institutions has never been this low.
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