YO!Fest 2017, Youth Opion Festival, which took place in Maastricht on February 7, was a great success. Over 3,000 young people registered for the festival and debated about their future Europe. Important moment was the visit of the German President Gauck and the Chairman of the European Committee of the Regions, Markku Markkula. Pictures by…
With Great Britain’s upcoming departure from the European Union exactly 25 years after the signing of the Treaty of Maastricht, it is time for a new step in Europe’s history. This was the message that kicked off the year-long ‘Europe Calling! Maastricht Treaty 25th Anniversary’ programme opened by governor of Limburg province Theo Bovens and…
The European Dream is in danger of disintegrating, of descending into a European Nightmare. And all this is happening just when we are commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty, the Union’s birth certificate. Are we going to let that happen? No, we must not. Is Maastricht, which gives its name to the Treaty, too small to make a difference? No, we are not.
European what is a continent – a rough piece of earth, divided by seas and tectonic plates, where mountains and lakes, rivers form borders and I was born there, like so many before me and so many after I never saw the primeval forest, or the wild animals but I have seen the people, and…