“All students need opportunities from an early age to understand sustainability and take action to protect our planet and our future,” said Bulgarian Youth Commissioner Mariya Gabriel.
The desire to make the themes of climate, biodiversity and sustainability resound more firmly in the classroom is somewhat striking: Brussels is not about education policy. That is also the reason why the daily EU board does not come up with a bill. Brussels does make a proposal for a ‘recommendation’. If education ministers of member states agree to this, they call on themselves to get started with green themes in education.
‘Propaganda’
Dutch MEP Rob Roos of JA21 is extremely critical of the proposal: “These recommendations from Brussels are nothing more than political ideology and propaganda to push our youth in a direction desired by the EU.”
The politician is not happy with the European interference and believes that education should be left to the Member States. Roos: “If we want to organize a better world, we must teach our children to think critically, make them resilient and, above all, teach science subjects such as mathematics, physics and chemistry. That gives real tools for solving problems.”