By Madeleina Kay and Jonathan Saunders
All information is accurate as of 23 June 2025.
Since July 2025, Young European Movement have offered members the opportunity to submit articles to our blog. If you are interested, please contact either Madeleina Kay or Jonathan Saunders with a pitch of up to 200 words outlining your article’s topic, your article’s key points, and your personal background (only if you have not written for us before).
Once edited, we will give you the opportunity to discuss changes and give us permission to publish. If it conforms to our style guide, we are also willing to re-publish articles that have originally been published elsewhere. Please note that we do not provide remuneration, but we will publicise your writing on our various social media platforms.
Style Guide
Please adhere to the following as closely as possible, so that your articles require as little editing as possible:
- Your heading should be bold, eye-catching, and in as few words as possible.
- A royalty-free image should be provided to accompany the article.
- Articles should be around 1,000 words, +/-20%
- If using size 14 font, paragraphs should be no longer than ten lines at the absolute most.
- Where appropriate, sources should be hyperlinked.
- Every few paragraphs, there should be a subheading.
- Under the article, there should be a brief paragraph summarising the author’s background.
Tips for Good Writing
Writing for us will give you a lot of freedom as an author to discuss topics that are important to you. They can be opinion-based, or they can talk of your personal experiences. The only requirement is that they are, at least in some sense, related to European affairs. Looking at previous articles on our blog is a good way to get ideas of the kind of topics our readers will be interested in.
As with any piece of good writing, make sure to capture the audience from the first sentence. People have increasingly little time, which means you will have to find ways to keep topics, some that may be quite complex, interesting to the reader throughout your article.
Never mention names that may be uncommon without an explanation (e.g., Keir Starmer may be okay, but even Rachel Reeves should be preceded by ‘Chancellor of the Exchequer’). Likewise, explain any uncommon language (or, jargon) and do not use uncommon acronyms without first using the full term.
About the Authors
Madeleina Kay is part of the European Movement’s staff team as their Youth Engagement Officer. She works with the Executive Board to support their campaigns to engage British youth in European advocacy and grow the movement across the UK. She is an artist and activist, awarded Young European of the Year (2018) and European Charlemagne Youth Prize (2020) in recognition of her creative campaigning for Europe. She is currently studying MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins where she was awarded Student Representative of the Year (2024 & 2025).
Email: madeleina.kay@europeanmovement.co.uk
Jonathan Saunders is doing a master’s degree in History of Political Thought, which is organised by University of London and hosted at several of its member institutions. Alongside studying for this, he is an assistant at a bookshop, a volunteer and a past candidate for the Labour Party, and a freelance writer. He got involved in Young European Movement through Young European Socialists and was inspired by its campaigns to stand for the Executive Board as the Head of International.
Email: international@yem.org.uk