Youth participation into practice

Giammarco Frattoli As proved by the series of articles dedicated to the path ahead the 2024 European Parliament elections, there is a wide variety of aspects to consider while analysing the last elections turnout and the levels of democratic participation in general. Therefore, this last article aims to highlight the main European strategies and programmes…

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Participation & young migrants

Giammarco Frattoli The 2015 EU Youth Report identified young people with migrant background as «1 of the 2 groups most at risk of poverty and social exclusion», making it harder for them to succeed in the integration process and take an active part in community life.[1] Therefore, this article, the third of the series, aims…

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Youth votes matter

Giammarco Frattoli It is often said that young European citizens do not participate enough in the EU’s democratic and political life. As stated in the previous article, post-election Eurobarometer surveys up to 2014 showed, in fact, that the greatest abstainers at the elections were people aged under 25.[1] However, the last European Parliament elections in…

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Road to 2024 European Parliament elections

Giammarco Frattoli In the run-up to the European Parliament elections in 2024, it is inevitable to try elaborating new strategies and good practices aimed to encourage more and more people to participate. First of all, it is fundamental to take into account the past elections results and observe how European citizens’ voting behaviour has changed…

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YOUCAN | Second Transnational Partner Meeting in Italy

From 5th to 6th of October, 2022 the consortium of the YOUCAN project has met in Milan (Italy) for the second Transnational Partner Meeting (TPM). The consortium of the YOUCAN project is formed by the following partners: YOUCAN (Youth with migrant drop-out tackling: capacity building) is a KA2 Erasmus project co-funded by the European Union, and its aim is to contribute…

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The forgotten role of migration in platform economy

Martina Monti 1. DEFINITION AND OPERATIVE MODE OF PLATFORM ECONOMY The digital revolution has drastically changed the pace at which information is exchanged. This shift in paradigm has been the breeding ground for new ways to think about work in our age, for mainstream economics had to familiarize with terms such as platform economy, digital…

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Did Ukraine refugee crisis expose EU to double standards?

By Martina Monti Assessing Ukrainian refugee wave in numbers On 24 February 2022, Russia forces stormed Ukraine, carrying out attacks in the north and south-eastern part of the country[1]. Inevitably this brought about two subsequent effects; on one side, it launched an all-out military offensive in a supposedly post-conflict continent. This was accompanied with the…

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