EU Enlargement and the Perception of the Young - Classtests [5D]
Cuoco's 4th Classtest
In my short essay I'll discuss the Enlargement of the European Union and the interpretation of data carried out by my group in the class work during the project.
In the interview I carried out there were five questions adressed to five peoplebetween 16 and 30 years of age, in order to understand the level of information of young generation about the European Union we asked them.
There were five points: the first question was meant to find out what the general knowledge about EU was like, the second question was about the reason why it was born, the third question asked who can have European citizenship, the fouth one asked for an opinion about the entry of Turkey in the European Union and in the last question the interviewed were asked how many and which languages should be spoken in EU. From analysing results, it appears that the young people do not have a good knowledge about EU.
Their information is superficial. It appears that a lot of the people interviewed have vary poor knowledge about the European Union.
Only few people have and show knowledge very detail. Probably the lack of information is connected to the bad use of media on the poif of young people who do not read very frequently magazine, newspapers and journals.
The European identity will be vary important.
In my opinion a possible explanation for this may be two or three effects: the European Union is not generally a school subject; people are not intrested in EU and last, people see the European Union as an abstract concept. Young people are so little intormed and this is a serious problem.
Also they have to understand the different concepts between Europe and the European Union.
The first concept refers to a geographical area while the second one refers to a political and economic organization. The European Union was born to keep peace and prosperity.