The First European Presidential Debate will take place on Monday 28th
April in Maastricht. The debate, hosted by the City of Maastricht,
Maastricht University, Connect Limburg and the European Youth Forum,
will see the candidates for the presidency of the European Commission
battle out key issues on the future of Europe. The debate will be held
in front of an audience of 700 young people and broadcast live worldwide
in 13 languages on Euronews.
The candidates, Jean-Claude Juncker (European People’s Party), Martin
Schulz (Party of European Socialists), Guy Verhofstadt (Alliance of
Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party) and Ska Keller (European Green
Party) will answer questions from thousands of young people all over
Europe. The candidates will then debate key issues such as unemployment,
education and young people’s engagement in politics.
The debate, officially known as “The First European Presidential
Debate”, is being organised by Maastricht University, the City of
Maastricht, Connect Limburg, the European Youth Forum, and with Euronews
as the main media partner. Given the European nature of both the city
and the university, Maastricht is the logical place to hold this very
first EU Presidential debate. The theatre audience will be made up of
international students, youth civil society, and young people from
across Europe. The debate will focus on the issues that matter most to
young Europeans; the questions will be gathered using a unique
participatory process through collaboration between the University of
Maastricht and the European Youth Forum/League of Young Voters.
Moderated by Euronews lead presenter Isabelle Kumar, the debate will be
available live through Euronews’ worldwide TV network (covering 415
million homes in 156 countries), simultaneously in 13 languages: Arabic,
English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Persian,
Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. The debate will
also be streamed live on this website, as well as on euronews.com and on
Euronews’ mobile apps.
http://eudebate2014.eu/
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