How Young People See EU and Enlargement
Second Question Interpretation - Group work: De Marchi Marco and Di Just Alberto
Our group analysed the data concerning second question of the interview: ”Do you know why the European Union was born?(What are its goals’)”.
We adopted four reference criteria to process and analyse the answers : no knowledge, superficial , reasonable and detailed.
An answer was processed as:
  • no knowledge when either the interviewed produced no an answer or it provided one with incorrect information.
  • superficial when it took into consideration only some aspects of the issue or when the interviewed was not sure about the related information
  • reasonable when it took into consideration at least two aspects of the problem
  • detailed when the interviewed was able to produced a clear thought and added details also expressed in a correct micro- language.


  • In conclusion we can affirm that a lot of young people showed a superficial level of information or even no knowledge. The data underline that Italian young people living in this are not particularly interested in the European Union. This is a sad reality because we live in a Member States and problems connected to EU are discussed also by mass media. Only the 2.4% answered revealing the possession of detailed information but they were the older people.