To the purpose, I will refer to:
After that, I will try to propose some personal considerations and concrete proposal. The extract above lists the Copenaghen Criteria underlining that the enlargement is not a question of if but when. This implies that the aim of EU is to create a big union and to include all countries.
It is necessary to define the date of the next entries. The Copenaghen Criteria establish that in order to enter EU, the countries have to conform to such criteria. Hence the entry of a state is decided clearly considering these points. In the experience of interviewing young people I understood that people know nothing or not much of EU. They perceive it as a distant reality and as something to remember.
Remembering something implies that we perceive it not only as a distant reality, but also as something concluded, that has to be remembered.
This is connected with the lack of information on the part of young people. In fact they seem also to be concentrated on their individual life and they are not interested in what happens in Europe. Hence there is not only a lack of information but also a lack of interest.
The other groups of my class realized that people know not much of EU too. The tables generated to process the data collected reveal the ignorance of young people, except for what concerns languages that should be spoken to communicate in Europe. Maybe the question did not require previous information, and people gave the most logic answer in the questions connected to the linguistic area.
I think that media should inform people more. For example, they could propose cultural programs not at night time but in the afternoon or, in any case, earlier. Moreover I think that people have to feel themselves not only part of a “local reality” but of something bigger, that is EU or the global village.