What do a loud-mouthed English ladette, a svelte Ukrainian vamp, a dashing Polish casanova and a bagpipe-playing Frenchman all have in common? Bar-stool jokes aside, they're all members of YRN - the association of European regions' youth network. About 150 people meet annually to discuss how to use Europe to hoist them out of the economic doldrums. cafebabel.com caught up with them in Paris this DecemberCharlotte Kudé, 18, is unflinching, even intimidating as she delivers her welcome speech to a cavernous conference room of blinking euro-youths. At an age when many of us were busy smoking rollies and looking moody, she has managed to get herself elected as president of a youth network that represents 270 regions from 33 countries. Her audience do not hail simply from Milan, Frankfurt or Berlin, but from regions as diverse as the sunlight-shy Gavleborg in Sweden, the Atlantic archipelago of the Azores, and the eastern extremities of Georgia. This is Europe's real international generation - a bunch of twentysomethings who think little of jumping on a plane to Paris at a moment's notice, unfazed by a three-day conference held entirely in English, most wielding a command of at least two foreign languages. The post-erasmus society who have found themselves disenfranchised by the greed of middle-aged bankers are more than ready to utilise Europe to take back their futures.
Charlotte Kudé, 18, is unflinching, even intimidating as she delivers her welcome speech to a cavernous conference room of blinking euro-youths. At an age when many of us were busy smoking rollies and looking moody, she has managed to get herself elected as president of a youth network that represents 270 regions from 33 countries. Her audience do not hail simply from Milan, Frankfurt or Berlin, but from regions as diverse as the sunlight-shy Gavleborg in Sweden, the Atlantic archipelago of the Azores, and the eastern extremities of Georgia. This is Europe's real international generation - a bunch of twentysomethings who think little of jumping on a plane to Paris at a moment's notice, unfazed by a three-day conference held entirely in English, most wielding a command of at least two foreign languages. The post-erasmus society who have found themselves disenfranchised by the greed of middle-aged bankers are more than ready to utilise Europe to take back their futures.
A priest last week admitted in a statement to SPIEGEL he had abused a number of pupils at an elite Berlin high school run by Jesuit priests. In recent days, around 20 former students have come forward alleging they were sexually abused by priests at the school. The director of Canisius College has described the years-long abuse as "systematic." Berlin's Canisius College, a university-prep high school run by Jesuit priests, is one of the most elite schools in the German capital. Former students from the respected private school have reached the upper echelons of business, politics and society. For the past week, however, Canisius College has been at the center of a major sexual abuse scandall. Last week, around 20 former students claimed they had been sexually abused by two teachers at the school, Wolfgang S. and Peter R. The abuse is believed to have been committed during the 1970s and 1980s.
A priest last week admitted in a statement to SPIEGEL he had abused a number of pupils at an elite Berlin high school run by Jesuit priests. In recent days, around 20 former students have come forward alleging they were sexually abused by priests at the school. The director of Canisius College has described the years-long abuse as "systematic."
Berlin's Canisius College, a university-prep high school run by Jesuit priests, is one of the most elite schools in the German capital. Former students from the respected private school have reached the upper echelons of business, politics and society. For the past week, however, Canisius College has been at the center of a major sexual abuse scandall.
Last week, around 20 former students claimed they had been sexually abused by two teachers at the school, Wolfgang S. and Peter R. The abuse is believed to have been committed during the 1970s and 1980s.
Almost half of European recruiters seek information on potential candidates using online social networks and almost a quarter have rejected candidacies on the basis of their research, according to a survey released for EU Data Protection Day. When asked how they collect information about people they plan to hire, 43% of European human resources professionals surveyed reply that they analyse the online reputation of the candidate, mainly through search engines, social networking websites, personal sites and blogs. In Germany, 59% of recruiters make use of personal data collected on the Internet for the evaluation of a candidate, 47% in the UK, and 23% in France. The EU average is much lower than the US, where 79% of HR experts scan the Web in search of personal information for recruiting purposes.
When asked how they collect information about people they plan to hire, 43% of European human resources professionals surveyed reply that they analyse the online reputation of the candidate, mainly through search engines, social networking websites, personal sites and blogs.
In Germany, 59% of recruiters make use of personal data collected on the Internet for the evaluation of a candidate, 47% in the UK, and 23% in France. The EU average is much lower than the US, where 79% of HR experts scan the Web in search of personal information for recruiting purposes.
Crazy as it sounds, over the next several weeks I'm going to try to do something close to that. I'll be writing about the elements of mathematics, from pre-school to grad school, for anyone out there who'd like to have a second chance at the subject -- but this time from an adult perspective. It's not intended to be remedial. The goal is to give you a better feeling for what math is all about and why it's so enthralling to those who get it. ... The creative process here is the same as the one that gave us numbers in the first place. Just as numbers are a shortcut for counting by ones, addition is a shortcut for counting by any amount. This is how mathematics grows. The right abstraction leads to new insight, and new power. ... Yet despite this infinite vista, there are always constraints on our creativity. We can decide what we mean by things like 6 and +, but once we do, the results of equations like 6 + 6 are beyond our control. In mathematics, we'll see in the coming weeks, our freedom lies in the questions we ask -- and in how we pursue them -- but not in the answers awaiting us.
...
The creative process here is the same as the one that gave us numbers in the first place. Just as numbers are a shortcut for counting by ones, addition is a shortcut for counting by any amount. This is how mathematics grows. The right abstraction leads to new insight, and new power.
Yet despite this infinite vista, there are always constraints on our creativity. We can decide what we mean by things like 6 and +, but once we do, the results of equations like 6 + 6 are beyond our control. In mathematics, we'll see in the coming weeks, our freedom lies in the questions we ask -- and in how we pursue them -- but not in the answers awaiting us.
In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
