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The Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions shares concerns on the State of the European Union speech delivered this morning by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. While we welcome Juncker’s call for promoting peaceful and inclusive societies to fight radicalisation and Euroscepticism, we want to stress that the history of the European Union and its values will be lost if Member States do not start to invest again in education.

As a participant in the Summer School 2018: 'Open doors to inclusion!', Adna Sokolović, from ASuBiH, had the opportunity to talk about the topic of inclusion with young people from all over Europe. She explains how her perspective and understanding of the topic has change.

OBESSU General Assembly held in Bucharest on the 21st and 22nd of July voted on welcoming a new member organisation to the OBESSU family. Comité des Elèves Francophones (CEF) - the Belgian French-speaking school student union - joined OBESSU as a full member after a year and a half of candidacy.

Following the OBESSU General Assembly in Bucharest, Romania, Board Members Rob & Sara travelled to Italy to visit the summer activist camps of both Italian member organisations, Unione degli Studenti (UdS) and Rete degli Studenti Medi (RSM).

On the weekend of 6-9 July, OBESSU was represented at the first ever Youth Forum for the Mediterranean, organised by the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). UfM is an intergovernmental institution bringing together 43 countries to promote dialogue and cooperation on both the North and South Coasts of the Mediterranean.