 May 11th: At it’s 54th Board Meeting, ESU accepted an external motion calling for the integration of the Republic of Serbia into the European Union. A Serbia within the EU will lead to major improvements for Serbia's students such as stronger mobility, an improved quality of academia and equal treatment of other EU students whilst studying abroad.
Over the past years, the countries of the Western Balkans have moved closer to the EU: certain progress in reforms was made and established criteria and conditions have been met. Important steps were taken in regional cooperation. Public opinion in the Western Balkans is largely favorable to EU integration. All governments have committed themselves to this objective and are, each according to their ability, implementing reforms. However, the Western Balkans are confronted with a number of challenges. It is in the interest of the European Union, and of Europe as a whole, that the region should go ahead as rapidly as possible with political and economic reform and reconciliation among people. It is also in the best interest of the EU that these countries develop strong cooperation among themselves in order to achieve progress towards the EU.
Stability of the region is only possible through a stable and prosperous Serbia fully integrated into the family of European peoples. Though the presidential elections held in February 2008 confirmed Serbia's European aspirations, Serbia is currently facing strategic choices regarding its future, which depend on the results of today’s parliamentary elections. After 8 years of a difficult transition process and a lot of drawbacks along the European path of Serbia, the forces from the nineties are strengthening and endangering the whole region by possibly leading towards an isolation of Serbia.
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May 10th: ESU is currently hosting its' 54th Board Meeting, along with Slovak member SRVS. Gathered in Brusno, Central Slovakia, 140 reprsentatives from ESUs member unions, are discussing the last six months of ESU work and deciding on the future courses of action. Of note, are the numerous elections which have taken place yesterday and today. The current volunteers end their mandate in July and will not be replaced post for post since ESU passed a new set of structures at its' last board meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. The new volunteers, who will take up position on July 10th are as follows:
Chairperson - Ligia Deca of Romania
Vice-Chairperson - Anita Liice of Latvia
Executive Committee - Alma Joenson of Iceland, Bruno Carapinha of Portugal and Olav Oye of Norway
Administrative Committee - Antigoni Ioannidou of Cyprus and Joram Op Den Kelder of the Netherlands
Student Union Development Committee - Jens Jungblut of Germany, Kate Chachava of Georgia
Social Affairs Committee - Claire Guichet of France, Damien Ramage of France, Inge Gielis of Belgium and Marin Baksa of Croatia
Academic Affairs Committee - Ben Gray of the UK and Alessia Cacciagrano of Italy Esu extends a warm welcome to these new volunteers who will spend the next year carrying ESUs message far and wide. Please check the website for more details on the outcome of the board meeting in the following days. |
 9th April: The European Students' Union (ESU) and the Student Higher Education Council of the Slovak Republic (SRVS) to announce their forthcoming seminar(from 6th-8th May) on equity in higher education. ‘Now for real – Equity in Higher Education’ will be the launch event of ESU’s «Equity From A Students’ Perspective» project run by ESU in cooperation with its’ partners Scienter and Menon as well as the National Unions of Students from Austria, Romania, Slovakia and Estonia.
The importance of equity in Higher Education has been increasingly outlined in the recent discussions about educational and related political and social reforms. In the Bologna Process, the social dimension has been integrated as one of the priorities towards 2009 whilst different stakeholders have raised the question of equity within the Lisbon agenda - be it the students or the European commission in their 2006 communication entitled «equity and efficiency». Increasing equity within higher education has been recognized as the main priority for the development of European higher education post-2010.
A great number of minority groups are still not fairly represented within the student body and are therefore unable to reach the highest levels of Education. Students experience first hand the barriers to entering and completing Higher Education and are the obvious group to claim their place in this debate.
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