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Europe This Week – Week 17

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Eco-design regulation is on the way! The EU’s ecodesign legislation aims to enhance product durability and repairability, fostering sustainable consumption. This shift can reduce waste and empower consumers. Though promising, implementation may take years, with challenges like online platform accountability and consumer rights needing attention. 

More on environmental sustainability. The EU Parliament’s new packaging regulation mandates deposits on cans across the EU by 2029, aiming to reduce plastic waste. This move aims to curb cross-border shopping for deposit-free cans, benefiting both environmental conservation and fair competition. Additionally, from 2030, plastic wrapping on fruits and vegetables will be limited

EU-wide disability and parking cards. The EU Parliament has adopted the EU Disability Card and European Parking Card to ensure equal access for people with disabilities to preferential conditions like reduced fees and priority access. 

Rights

Starting school in another EU country: As EU citizens, your children are entitled to attend school in any EU country under the same conditions as nationals of that country. They have the right to be placed in a class with their own age group, at the equivalent level to their class in your country of origin – regardless of their language level.

  • As an EU citizen, if you move to another EU country for work, your children are entitled to free introductory tuition in your new home country to help them integrate and adapt to the school system there. Part of this initial training includes support to learn the language of your new home country.

Opportunities 

Free trip to Trento (Italy): Join a training course on methods and tools of innovative storytelling. June 5-11. Deadline! May 5th. Sign up here

Free trip to Dublin (Ireland): Join a training course on how to integrate sustainability into youth work practice. June 10-12. Deadline! May 6th. Sign up here

Free trip to Ponoviče (Slovenia): Join a training course on adventure education while experiencing adventure education. The training itself will be a series of little and not-so-little adventures in nature. June 11-21. Deadline! May 10th. Sign up here

*To join the training courses, you need to be a member of an association. If you are not, you can always join AMIS

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