Press Release: ‘European Union and citizenship’: Commission launches competition aimed at all young people in European Union

Mr Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner responsible for justice, freedom and security, launched a competition today - 28 November 2008 - on European Union and citizenship. Art and graphics students aged 16 or over who live in an EU Member State or have EU Member State nationality were invited to create a one-page comic strip, with no text, to illustrate the concept of citizenship in the European Union. The aim of this competition was to enable all these young people to describe their own experience of living as citizens in the European Union.