European Poster Contest in Germany
How to motivate first-time voters to make use of their rights? When old folks think about this question, they come up with an answer quite fast. Young people will do a much better job to motivate their peers than the old ones could ever do. So, aktion europa, consisting of the German government, the European commission and the European parliament, arranged the poster contest “Schöner Wählen” - “Nicer Voting”.
From June 7th 2008 on, more than 5000 youngsters entered the competition and 1612 posters have been turned in. In February 2009, the jury nominated three winning teams whose posters have been presented to the public on April 24th 2009 in Berlin. As a reward for the hard work, 50 000 posters and 500 000 postcards will be printed and distributed previous to the elections. Here you can find the winning posters and also a selection of those which had been short-listed.
on 05-05-2009 By epolitik - Crossing Europe A-Z
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Sensibilizing EU citizens about the importance of EU's affairs for them to vote for the European Parliament elections is a laudable goal. However it shows the general lack of interest of the media for the EU. The EU does matter! Its work got a considerable impact on EU citizens life, 90% of national legislation adoption by national parliaments are from the EU! This is all year long that the EU is working for its citizens. And yet again, there is only interest for the Eu during the European Parliament elections campaign. And even for this occasion, the multitude of blogs fourishing are only talking about politics, most of the time European Parliament politics, not very concretely by the way. However the Commission and the Parliament are opening up. They are making huge efforts to put into practice new values such as empowerment, involvement, inclusion, so trying to fight the so called democratic deficit. The EU is ready to listen to its citizens. The question is: do its citizens are ready to talk to the EU? Do the media are ready to be this link between and the EU and its citizens to disseminate the information about EU forum, blogs, consultation about what really matters for the citizens: public policy? It looks like no, for now.
There are lots of forums on the Commission website, there is also a blog for young people for them to have their say on youth health policy : http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/youth... , there are also blogs and forum on directorates general webpages...