Dutch EU officials go back to their high schools

Some 350 Dutch civil servants who work for the European institutions and MEPs are returning to their former secondary schools for a day to talk with school pupils about their work and the European Union.

The operation, ‘EU: Back to School’, will see Dutch EU employees deliver guest lessons to around 11,000 schoolchildren today (14 April) on a variety of European topics, but also talk to students about how their own education relates to Europe and what they can achieve with it at the European level.

[...] The Dutch secretary of state for European affairs, Frans Timmermans, is to visit his former school, Bernardinus College in Heerlen, as well as the SG Zuidwest in the Hague.

Read full article: EU Observer, 14 April 2008