News: Age discrimination in a poster competition, again

DG MOVE, the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport of the European Commission, which deals with all aspects of European transport policy and is responsible for promoting road safety across all 27 Member States has published a Call for entries for a road safety poster for Europe. The competition rules exclude participants older than 25 years. I said it in 2007 and in 2009: As one of those being fenced out, I don't like this age discrimination. It is, in my opinion, just as bad as "whites only", "men only", "don't buy from Jews" and other such unjust propositions. The "Call for entries" implies that people older than 25 do not have "what it takes to design a poster that speaks to young European drivers and gets them thinking about road safety" which I personally consider an insult. I have written to the organizers and to the institutions endorsing this project and asked them to drop the age restriction. Please do the same if you agree, just referring to this web page ( http://www.posterpage.ch/div/news11/n110923.htm )   Young artists for road safety jldelsaute@euresin.eu   Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, European Commission move-infos@ec.europa.eu   Androulla Vassiliou, EU Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth androulla.vassiliou@ec.europa.eu   Viviane Redding, EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Matthew.Newman@ec.europa.eu You may also consult the website stop-discrimination.info, published by the EU.