Education
Literacy and Smart Growth - Together in Good and Bad The usage of the term "smart growth" is so huge that it hardly crosses someone's mind what it actually means. Smart growth as an inherent part of the European institutions' rhetoric, especially in the context of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the Europe 2020 strategy (all long-ter ...
The Lessons from the Good News Two bits of good news came for the new EU Member States on 30 May, when the European Commission presented its assessments of the countries` budgetary and economic policies and recommendations on them - the abrogation of the excessive deficit procedure against Bulgaria and the repeal of sanctions ...
Why Should the EU be Studied at School? With this question I tried to provoke teachers from secondary schools in Bulgaria, gathered for a seminar in the EU Information Centre in Sofia. The event was organised by the Information Office of the European Parliament in Bulgaria and aimed Bulgarian MEPs to acquaint teachers with the current ...
Education Is the Key for Implementation of "Bulgaria 2020" Strategy The draft programme for national development "Bulgaria 2020" can be described briefly like this: a lot of 'what' and a little of 'how'. The good news is that the draft objectively presents the real challenges facing the country, and its goals are quite logical national priorities, reflecting the ...
Will the Money Follow Children or ... The new Bulgarian bill on school education provides for the principle "money follows the student" to be put into practise for the first time, which will allow pupils in private schools to receive state subsidies too. This caused mixed public reactions - from complete approval to fierce criticism ...
European Education in Decline* euinside was media partner in Bulgaria to the "My Europe" initiative of ICCA (Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs) and the Frankfurter Zukunftsrat (Future Think Tank) Through a series of workshops with young people in 29 European countries, under the patronage of Ms Viviane Reding, Vice Pres ...
Labour Market Is Bulgaria's Achilles' Heel Of all the 7 recommendations, which the European Commission made for Bulgaria last year as part of the European semester for closer coordination of the economic and budgetary policies, the government in Sofia has managed to implement only one. That is to reduce the budget deficit, which makes th ...
An Unashamed Support For Businesses in the New British Budget The first comments by politicians and media on UK 2012 budget were that it was a budget for millionaires and penalised pensioners and families with children. But as Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said in his speech to Parliament, the budget "unashamedly backs business. And it is on t ...
Europe's Future Depends on Knowledge Almost two years ago I wrote an article, which I titled "It's the education, stupid!", a paraphrase of the famous remark in the US during Bill Clinton's presidency "It's the economy, stupid!". Now, again I would like to use this title because time and time again we come to the conclusion that wi ...
In euinside we have commented before, on the occasion of Iceland for instance, that the more severe nature is in a country, the less goods people can get with no efforts, the more this mobilises society to develop its potential at the maximum. The same can be said for Finland, which might not ha ...
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