Just had a discussion on Twitter with @npanayotopoulos and @kosmopolit about the problems faced when someone moved from one European country to another. Moving to the UK, you are often required to provide referees to rent – how do you get those if you lived in your own home, or your landlord doesn’t speak English?Continue reading “Moving on up”
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Home or away?
I was in Brussels yesterday and the day before, with a group of visitors. They were all people who teach journalism in UK universities, most of them former journalists, and who were interested in finding out more about how the EU really works. The idea of the visit came out of approaches I had hadContinue reading “Home or away?”
How creative are you?
If you’re an existing or aspiring journalist, there are two pretty cool competitions going on at the moment which you might be interested in. The first is the Enlargement Young Journalist award, open to journalists and journalism students aged 17 to 35 from the EU or current and future candidate countries. They’re looking for a creative, thought-provoking pieceContinue reading “How creative are you?”