6 minutes agoEU to give youth free one month travel tickets across Europe
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)This summer, the European Commission will provide 18-year-old Europeans with a free ticket of “Interray”, which enables travel across 30 European countries for a whole month. And, you're not offering two or three teenagers, but 20,000 to 30 thousand of them, writes Periscope. The European Commission has already allocated a budget of 12 [...]
The European Commission has already earmarked a budget of 12m euros for this year, to this end. Specific details on how to apply and who will win free tickets, worth 510 euros, will be provided over the coming months.
But one thing is certain, tens of thousands of young people will have the opportunity to travel by train from Lapland to Lisbon and the price they have to pay is zero.
What is the purpose of all these trips?
According to the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, Tibor Navracsics, the goal is to expand young people's horizons, also hoping to plant a sense of closer relations among Europeans.
“Education means not only learning in class, but education is also what we learn about the culture and tradition of our European friends”, he said through a press communique.
Even British young people will have access to the application, although Great Britain is in EU exit procedures.
For the past few decades, spending a month traveling across Europe with “Interray” has not been easily feasible for high price chess.
But that's not what it was 25 years ago, it wrote a quote.com.
If you visited Europe's largest centers two decades ago or more, you would see summer platforms with young people using “Interray”, with the aim of experiencing summer Tribes in places they wanted. When “Interray” was launched for the first time in 1972, the price amounted to 35 euros, which allowed a large portion of young people travel across Europe.
But things changed over the years, and the price became unbearable for young people. /Periscopi/
