Writing Contest - Category Between 7 and 13 years

Between 7 and 13 years

Europe of Future

Europe of Future

 

Do contemporary youth feel advantage of being in the European Union?

Are teenagers aware of living in it and do they benefit from it?

If we asked  the elderly-people  older than contemporary  youth by about twenty years, we would learn that a lot have been changed since Poland entered the Union.

One  enormous  alteration  of  all  is the possibility  of  travelling a11 around Union country with the view to studying, working or living. A   huge   number   of   my   friends   learn   in   European   countries on  the  base  of  students  exchange  programmes.  Thousands  of  the Polish work and live beside Poland. Nowadays I can travel and live without  any  obstacles  only  showing  an  identity  card.  The  only problem may be currency exchange, however, when Poland joins the monetary Euro zone this inconvenience should disappear. Thanks to Union, fulfilling your dreams about studying or travelling is like snapptng
your fingers.
 
Contemporary youngsters have the freedom of communicating with   other  nations   in  Europe  not   only  on   a   linguistic  level. Young  Poles  don't   have  the  same  prejudices  as  their  parents concerning the origin from "the worse part of Europe" or that they come from "the  country which wasn't  the founder of the Union". The  lack  of  such  complexes  will  enable  people  to  talk  equally in the  future  and  consequently the  communication between inhabitants of all countries will be fuller.

My parents see the difference between the time when they were teenagers  with  comparison  to  the  current  time.  They  also  see the  benefits  citizens  of  European  Union,  which  I  don't   notice as  they   have   been   a   reality   since  my   birth.   Joining   Poland to  the  European  Union  was  a  new  start  for  my  parents.  Life in united Europe is universality for me and I wouldn't like to lose it. The future of Europe depends on the people who rule and govern it and it will belong to us, there fore it is worth working on it now.

Zofia Dzikliilska