Intrview with foreign students

With our participation in European Spring Day blog competition we decided to question some foreign students who learn in Tartu University to get a better overview from people who have lived in EU for their whole life.
So after some preparations we could do a small interview with five foreign students. Two of them were from Hungary, two from Germany and one from Holland.
It turned out to be a very successful interview – although they had no time to prepare they still managed to give very comprehensive and interesting answers. So although the clips below are quite long they are certainly worth watching.
All students answered that they came here with the ERASMUS project which is created by European Union to ease students stuyding oppurtunities abroad.
Asking them why Estonia they mostly said that they didn’t know nothing about Eastern-Europe or Baltic States and as they were all interested about this region different routs brought them here.
They also spoke very interesting about life in Estonia and Estonian stereotypes. For example the girl from Holland brought out that although we haven’t been an independent country for even 20 years but our quality of life can already be compared with Holland’s life.
After that our chat carried on to Turkey topic where were some adversative opinions. They brought out some positive and some negative aspects about Turkey joining EU. They thought that first of all Turkey should try to deal with their inner problems – maybe conduct some reformations and arrange an referendum to know if Turkish inhabitants at all want to join EU and after that start to concentrate on filling EU criterions.
Talking about the future of EU they didn’t have much to say as you never know what future brings. However they expected that eventhough the structure of European Union will probably change it will still be there, at least until the end of our generation. Same time they didn’t think that there could be an unified European people who would speak same language and live in same country as all the nations in EU are too different for that.
Watch clips about the interview below.

1. Where are you from? How did EU help you coming coming to Estonia? Why Estonia?

2. What did you know about Estonia before coming here and what do you think about it now?

3. Should Turkey join EU?

4. What will be the future of EU?