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The (Yo)U in EU: With the 2019 EP elections ahead and the use of citizen participation possibilities in the EU still remaining relatively low, what should be done to increase citizens’ participation in EU matters and increase the impact of individual citizens and their ideas on European politics?
Teaching or Preaching? With Luxembourg banning religious education and France striving for more secularism in education, also prohibiting religious symbols in schools, what stance should the European Union take towards religion in schools, while bearing in mind the right to freedom of religion and belief?
Mind your Language: Under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, Member States have committed to promoting and protecting minority languages. However, with over 130 endangered languages currently in Europe, what should the European Union do to ensure the protection of regional and minority languages whilst maintaining cultural integration within Member States?
The cities are ours: with the increasing demand for innovation and technological improvement in European Cities and Smart City initiatives and their bottom-up approach becoming more and more popular, what framework should the EU and its Member States create to increase citizen involvement in urban development?
For the many, not the few: Income inequality is on the rise in Europe, with the average income of the top 10% of earners being 9.5 times that of the bottom 10%. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the cities of Europe, where the greatest social and economic divide can be seen. What should be done to lessen the gap between rich and poor in an increasingly metropolitan Europe whilst maintaining financial stability?