This document summarizes some of the benefits Lithuania and the individual have experienced from EU membership. It discusses the pros of duty-free trade, EU project funding for schools, the Erasmus student exchange program, the Schengen Area allowing travel within Europe, and rights to work in any EU country. The individual provides personal examples of benefiting from cheaper imported goods, receiving a better education through school funding, studying abroad via Erasmus, traveling more freely within Europe, and gaining work opportunities elsewhere in the EU.

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3. Being a part of the
European Union has
provided Lithuania and
myself, as an individual,
with many good things.
Allow me to tell you about
some of them.

4. Duty-free Trade
Pros:
Increases good
supply and
decreases sale costs.
Cons:
Imported goods replace
native ones, thus local
business has lower
income.

5. I liked to watch cartoons as a
child. If there was no decision to
create duty-free trade, I would
have watched them on an old
"Šilelis".
I'm glad that I watched them on
a widescreen "Samsung" which
was imported from Germany.

6. Pros:
Project funding
Schools can organise
more events, manage
the curicular.
Cons:
Getting funding requires a lot
of documentation, so
intelectual and creative
potential of workers are used
in a less productive way.

7. My school received funding from the EU, so
we could get a more qualified education.
Now there are projectors, new desks and
computers for the teachers in every
classroom. It is hard to imagine learning
without these things.

8. “Erasmus”
Pros:
As a participant of Interesting fact:
“Erasmus” , you Every year 180
do not need to pay thousand students
for studies in a participate in
foreign university. “Erasmus” student
exchange programme.

9. When I graduated from a high school, I wanted to continue
my studies abroad.
With the help of the student exchange programme
"Erasmus", I had a chance to try studying in the university
of Oxford, UK.
I do not want to imagine how it would be if there was no
"Erasmus“ .

10. Schengen Area
Pros: You can
travel, live and work
in any country
which belongs to
the EU.
Cons: Criminals can try to
avoid justice by fleeing to a
neighbouring EU. country.
Because of that, EU.
countries’ police forces
and courts should be more
coordinated.

11. In 1995, Schengen, Luxembourg the contract of Schengen,
which allows the citizens of the EU to travel easily in Europe,
was signed.
I used this opportunity and went to France, where I met my
(girl) friend Amelia.
If there was no Schengen area, traveling would require
much more documentation and I probably would have
stayed in Rū gpieniai village.

12. Job and employment
Pros:
As a citizen of any EU, you
have the right to work in
any member country. Cons:
Work visas are no longer Emigration is on the rise.
required.

13. When my education was
completed, I decided
to relate my life with politics.
I did not need to get a work
visa to start my
career in other country of
EU.
Right now, I
work in the EU Parliament
representing
Lithuania's interests.

14. All in all, I think that the
EU has both pros and cons.
Even though some people
think that the EU is a bad
idea, in my opinion it
helps with everyday life
and makes tedious tasks
easy.

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• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Schengen_
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