Help your primary and secondary students get up to speed on the European Union – and all the political debates surrounding it – with these useful teaching resources
Whether it’s the fate of Greece or the UK’s in-out referendum, the European Union (EU) is the subject of an increasingly intense and multi-faceted political debate.
Despite this, indications suggest that there’s a lack of understanding about what the EU is– something from which teachers and students are not immune. Political apathy among young people is high: the last European election saw just 18% of young people in the UK cast a vote, the lowest turnout for under-24s in Europe, compared with 58.9% in Sweden.
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