1. Small political survey

2. What do you know about your country? - Croatia  4,7 million people, 5 regions, centralistic system, democration, 3 parties, one president (he`s a musician), but the main power has the prime minister  The government stole a lot of money, after the war until now, so many politicians are in jail now (including the former prime.minister). Big corruption, high rate of poor people  President: Ivo Jospovic

3. Croatia I.How does youth policy work in your country? II.What do you think about school education, does it prepare you for your working life? III.Do you think that it is possible to change something? I.We don`t have youth policy in our country II.10 % of high-educated people, very formal and old fashioned (comparing to Sweden e.g). Education is not enough, because we don`t get any life skills, only knowledge but without practice III.Yes – but a youth council is needed to activate the youth to start making solutions – get into high schools and give the young people political education and workshops

4. What do you know about your country? - Iceland  Democratic republic. Parliament is calles „Althingi“ and is the oldest parliament i the world. The president is Olafur Ragnar Grimsson and the prime minister is Johanna Sigurdardottir

5. Iceland I.How does youth policy work in your country? II.What do you think about school education, does it prepare you for your working life? III.Do you think that it is possible to change something? I.The cities themselves organize all forms of youth projects. There are youth facilities all over the capital Reykjavik and in all towns. The cities provide work around the city doing all kinds of sorts of cleaning up and helping the environment for teenagers every summer. II.The mandatory education is going through a lot of modernization and has been for the last about 10 years. But since the literacy rate is among the highest in the world we suppose it`s pretty good. The state pays for your education until you`re 15 and after that it`s all subsidized. III.In 2010 a famous comedian with radical and fresh ideas was elected the mayor of Reykjavik so the democratic spirit seems alive in Iceland. For young people there can always be improvement but at the moment, after economic crash there has been a lot of innovation by people wanting to keep from being inactive.

6. What do you know about your country? - France  Republic democracy  President: Nicolai Sarkozy  Ruling parties are union for popular movement  Prime Minister is Francois Fillon

7. France I.How does youth policy work in your country? II.What do you think about school education, does it prepare you for your working life? III.Do you think that it is possible to change something? I.For youngsters it`s very difficult to find a job more and more – more than 20 % - 40 % I.Very big problem, teachers loose their jobs, not enough teachers II.System is changing now but not in a good direction

8. What do you know about your country?- Germany  Representive democratic republic  The chancellor is Angela Merkel, the new president is Joachim Gauck  We have 5 parties in the federal parliament: TCDU/CSU, FDP, SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Die Linken  But there are also some other parties in the counties: NPD, Die Piraten

9. Germany I.How does youth policy work in your country? II.What do you think about school education, does it prepare you for your working life? III.Do you think that it is possible to change something? I.It seems like youth policy is getting more and more interesting for politicians. We think that this is because young people are becoming a minority – and now we are important. II.Education is pretty well, but not well organized and sometimes very boring (no practical things). You need to pay if you want to have a better education. III.Young people should be more involved according to their motivation and interests.

10. What do you know about your country?- Hungary  State form. Republic, parliamentory democracy  President: Pal Schmitt  Prime minister: Viktor Orbdu  Parliamentary parties: Fiderz + KDNP, MSZP, Fobbik, LMP

11. Hungary _________________________ I.How does youth policy work in your country? II.What do you think about school education, does it prepare you for your working life? III.Do you think that it is possible to change something? I.No ministry – no strategy for youth policy – main problems: Unemployment, demographic problems – mobility problems for people in perifery II.Newe educational laws – reformers – problem: not enough professional workers III.More attentions for youngsters (programms, events, more places for free time) – motivate them in learn and work – more responsible people

12. What do you know about your country?- Lithuania  Parlamentic democracy  President: Dalia Grtbauskaite  Ruling parties are conservative and liberales  Prime minister is: Andrius Kubilius

13. Lithuania I.How does youth policy work in your country? II.What do you think about school education, does it prepare you for your working life? III.Do you think that it is possible to change something? I.50 %, many young peole without jobs, etc. II.We don`t have a system that provides experience for young people III.We need to change our constitution

14. What do you know about your country?- Sweden  State form: Constitution monarchy  System: Democracy  Kings name. Karl Gustav the 16th  Prime minister name: Fredrik Reinfeldt

15. Sweden I.How does youth policy work in your country? II.What do you think about school education, does it prepare you for your working life? III.Do you think that it is possible to change something? I.Every party has a youth group and they work together with the parties II.Good education and very informative. You have 9 years in regular school. And than you have three years where you choose what you want to study. After that – university. III.You can try to change, but it`s hard and than many people give up because it takes long. But you can change!