The ‘European way of life’, a new narrative for the EU? Institutions’ vs citizens’ view

Local Initiatives Functioning as a Condition of Rural Development of the Czech Countryside Rural development is closely connected with the development possibilities of residential locations. Broken social ties are projected into its earlier development. The socialist way of life (from the end of the WW II until the end of the eighties) was ideologically formed by collectivist models. Social organisations were highly formalised and controlled from above. Thousands of new social organisations have emerged in the villages and in towns since 1989, mostly involving cultural, sports and social activities. Civil initiatives were slow in winning recognition in rural areas and some types of initiatives are still missing. A new impulse for their progress was the accession of the Czech Republic into the EU in 2004. Information is drawn from the sociological research projects of the Sociological Laboratory, Czech University of Life Sciences.

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EU Political Agenda of COVID-19 Crisis: Mechanisms and Financial Instruments to Mitigate the Economic Effects of the Pandemic in Newspapers ‘El País’ and ‘El Mundo’

Tripodos ◽

10.51698/tripodos.2020.47p171-186 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (47) ◽

pp. 171-186

Author(s):

Mafalda Lobo

Keyword(s):

Economic Effects ◽

Economic Recovery ◽

Political Agenda ◽

World Population ◽

Financial Instruments ◽

Way Of Life ◽

The Press ◽

Biological Capacity ◽

The City ◽

The Eu

With approximately one fifth of the world population in blockade, the COVID-19 has radically changed individuals’ way of life. The virus has infected million people and more than 200 countries (Worldometer’s COVID-19 data). But the effects of the virus go far beyond its biological capacity to cause disease. Beginning in the city of Wuhan, China, it rapidly spread across national borders, and has drawn attention to the porous and interconnected world in which we live. The economic results from the lockdown measures put the question of the European Union project. This article intends to analyse how the press in Spain, one of the Eurozone countries most affected by COVID-19, reflected the decisions of the EU (mechanisms and financial instruments) to mitigate the economic effects. The corpus of analysis includes articles published by the newspapers ‘El País’ and ‘El Mundo’. The analytic period starts on March 1 and ends on April 24, the day after the European Council approved the Economic Recovery Fund. The results show that the published news reflects the recommendations and decisions of the EU institutions, framing the mechanisms and financial instruments into coordinated Economic Strategy from EU, so essential to the economic recovery of Member States. Keywords: European Union, COVID-19, political agenda, Spanish newspaper, content analysis.

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Responses of the Visegrad States to the Migration Crisis and the European Identity

Handbook of Research on Social and Economic Development in the European Union - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1188-6.ch023 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 381-399

Author(s):

Neriman Hocaoğlu Bahadır

Keyword(s):

European Identity ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Political Leaders ◽

Political Actors ◽

Migration Crisis ◽

The Eu

European identity is an identity constructed everyday within the lives of Europeans. The emergence of this identity can be traced back to the 1970s when it was first introduced in the Copenhagen Declaration on European Identity (1973). The identity has changed a lot with each enlargement of the EU. It has enriched and evolved. But its construction has not been completed, as it is a process with no end. The EU has faced many crises and one of them that challenges identity is migration. It is a test for the EU, its identity, way of life, and values. This chapter analyses if migration is a threat to EU identity, how it became a challenge, and how the actors respond to this challenge. To find out how it became a challenge and how the actors, especially the Visegrad States' political leaders, respond to this challenge, the discourses of political actors are evaluated.

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National report 2009-2019 - Rural NEET in Romania

10.15847/cisrnyn.nrro.2020.12 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Lifelong Learning ◽

System Development ◽

Labour Force ◽

Economic Policies ◽

Labour Force Survey ◽

Market Demand ◽

Young Population ◽

Way Of Life ◽

The Eu

This report describes a particular situation of young population in Romania: the population of NEETs, with a focus on rural NEETs.Based on a complex methodology which uses data from different national sources (INS) and international sources (Eurostat, EU Labour Force Survey-EU-LFS, OECD),this report gives an overview of the evolution and particularities of NEETs in Romania during the previous deca-de, namely 2009-2019.Within the last ten years, the population of NEETs in Romania has grown rapidly, placing Ro-mania in first place in the EU-28 in terms of the share of this population among the young population. Thus, in 2009 Romania with a NEET rate of 13.9%, occupied first places in the EU, along with Bulgaria (19.5%), Italy (17.5%), Latvia (17.5%) (Eurostat, 2020). A decade later, in Bulgaria and Latvia, the NEET rate decreased significantly to 13.7% and 7.9%, respectively, but in Romania and Italy it increased by more than 1pp: 14.7% in Romania and 18.1% in Italy. (Eurostat, 2020). The causes for this are both individual (way of life, socio-familial origin, expectations and aspirations) and socio-economic (accessibility of the education system, development of lifelong learning, correspondence between education and labour market demand, particu-larities of the Romanian labour market, socio-economic policies supported by central and local authorities, etc.)

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Determinants of population trends in rural areas

Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development ◽

10.15544/mts.2015.44 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 532-540

Author(s):

Gediminas Kuliešis ◽

Lina Pareigienė

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Rural Population ◽

Population Decline ◽

Community Gardens ◽

Population Trends ◽

Population Variation ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Variation Trends ◽

Vital Factor ◽

The Eu

In recent decades the continuous decline of the rural population permanently raise concerns about the rural vitality – rural traditions, values and way of life of the rural population, which need to be supported. This is treated as a public good. Rural population is vital factor. Numerous scientific studies are devoted for investigating the ways and incentives how to encourage them to stay. The scientific problem of the study was to identify the factors behind the population variation trends in the same municipality while in some wards it increased and decreased in others. The study experts were executives of rural wards, who ranks the factors in order of importance in determining of the population trends. The results showed that executives consider population decline due to the changed geopolitical situation in Lithuania related to the accession to the EU, while the growth is caused by ward’s proximity to the central municipal city, favorable environment and availability of community gardens, where citizens are moving.

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