European Shenanigans
The European Parliament’s costly monthly pilgrimage packing up thousands of staff and boxes to commute between Brussels and this French city is affectionately dubbed the "Traveling Circus."
What is Strasbourg?
The Young European Ambassadors network officially kicked off its mission to connect youth across borders in this milestone year.
What is 2016?
This annual song competition, celebrating unity and wildly extravagant stage outfits, famously awards "douze points" to its favourites.
What is Eurovision?
The peaceful fall of this concrete barrier in 1989 reunited a divided city and heralded the end of the Cold War in Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
In 1932, the Australian military was deployed with machine guns but completely lost a "war" against a large flock of this flightless bird.
What is the emu?
To ensure equal legal standing across the Union, EU institutions employ armies of interpreters and translators to cover this exact number of official languages.
What is 24?
Spanning across our regions, this single-digit figure represents the total number of official chapters making up our network.
What is 6?
Despite its name, this massive German festival actually begins in September and is renowned globally for pretzels, lederhosen, and beer.
What is Oktoberfest?
Signed in 1992, the treaty named after this Dutch city formally created the European Union and paved the way for a single currency.
What is Maastricht?
In 1974, Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier hiding in the Philippines, finally surrendered after refusing to believe that this global conflict had ended nearly 30 years prior.
What is World War II?
This border town between Belgium and the Netherlands is an administrative maze made up of 30 separate enclaves and exclaves, resulting in white border crosses painted straight through cafes and living rooms.
What is Baarle (Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau)?
Rounded to the nearest thousand, this is the impressive headcount of active YEAs currently driving change across our network.
What is 3.000?
This rebellious, urinating bronze statue is a famous symbol of Brussels' irreverent sense of humour.
What is the Manneken Pis?
Signed in 1957, this landmark treaty created the European Economic Community (EEC) and is named after the Italian capital.
What is the Treaty of Rome?
During the Cold War, the CIA spent $20 million on "Project Acoustic Kitty," attempting to use these household pets as walking espionage devices.
What are cats?
In October 2023, a chartered high-speed train carrying hundreds of MEPs and EU parliamentary officials from Brussels to Strasbourg took a wrong turn and accidentally delivered them to this magical theme park instead.
What is Disneyland Paris?
Proving our community never sleeps, this is the massive milestone number of events—rounded to the nearest thousand—hosted by YEAs this year.
What is 7.000?
This Italian city, designated the first European Capital of Culture in 1986, gave birth to the Renaissance and houses the Uffizi Gallery.
What is Florence?
In 1618, throwing Catholic officials out of a window—a dramatic event known as a "defenestration"—in this Bohemian city sparked the Thirty Years' War.
What is Prague?
In 1966, this nation famously kicked all foreign NATO troops out and withdrew from the integrated military command to assert its own independence, though it rejoined decades later.
What is France?
The infamous 63-letter German tongue-twister Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetzwas drafted specifically to comply with EU consumer safety laws regulating the monitoring and labeling of this agricultural product.
What is beef (or cattle)?
This specific spring date is when the network celebrates Mapi’s birthday.
What is May 19th?
This ancient Celtic festival, celebrated with bonfires in Ireland and Scotland to mark the end of the harvest, is the direct ancestor of modern Halloween.
What is Samhain?
Founded in 1980 by Lech Wałęsa in a Gdańsk shipyard, this trade union played a pivotal role in peacefully ending communist rule in Poland.
What is Solidarity (Solidarność)?
In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used the metric system while the other team used this measurement system.
What is the Imperial system (or US Customary units)?