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Directeur de publication : Malo Mofakhami Rédacteurs en chef : Valentin Solimeo, Amandine Truong Journalistes : Eirini Samara, Leanna Reeves,Vera Ioos, Louise Mathieu

Editorial

« Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team » Patrick Lencioni (NYTimes best-selling author) Getting to know each other, learning how to trust, cooperating with a team… these teambuilding activities which are loads of fun, are also a key for creating and strengthening a group. It is a way to get bonded with people you didn’t even know in the beginning of the day. It is our outmost pleasure to see now that you have been more than able to complete this task!

Cooperation means meetings, which also means debates and diversity of points of view. The COP’s success depends on the parties ability to cooperate and establish a common position. Such a challenge ! Yet, the political and moral divergences began to resonate within the committee rooms.Trouville RS as a prelude of the COP ? While the mediaroom’s printers are imprinting the lines that you are reading at the moment, while the stress is at his peak , the chairpersons are typing what will be your most preoccupation during the GA : the holy « resolution ».To produce this content, it was essential to know how to work together at numerous scales : between EYP France and its international partners, the Grand Ouest Committee and the Orgateam, the Chairperson and yourselves and within every single committee room here. So much cooperation until now, and EYP offers you a possibility to join this process. What about making a step further, now ? Let the mediateam guide you through the highway to COP ! All you need is open-mindedness, imagination and this newspaper as your new travel companion.

You’ll cross en route our honorable President, through an amazing interview. Furthermore, our team is proposing you some free tips about EYP and a healthier everyday life. The previous itinerary is a non-exhaustive one, and we highly recommend you to check even the smallest detail of this travel companion. Will you dare to attempt the adventure ?

In the name of the MediaCompany, we, the editors are wishing you a fabulous trip (obviously 100 % eco-friendly).

Valentin & Amandine

Contents

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We met the President !

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Trucs et astuces

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Micro-trottoir

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Action menée pour la planète

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Mosaïque de photos

12 - 13. Interviews of the delegates 14 - 15

Top 10 : Some advice

16 -17 The Great Speech : BD 18 - 19

Put your mustaches !

WE MET THE PRESIDENT !

On friday we interviewed this session’s president: Daniels Grinevics, twenty-three years old, from Latvia and currently studying in Scotland. He is this session’s star and especially… the Gossip Box’s star!

Why did you first join the EYP? My school was rather active in the EYP and I heard about it from a friend of mine. I applied but I got ill. I had to wait for half a year for the next session but as soon as I did, I really fell for it.

I’ve been running around Europe ever since.

Why did you choose to come to the Trouville session?

I’ve already been to France before.

I was really intrigued about how it would be to do a session here. I hadn’t done it before because of my french skills but as soon as I heard the EYP France was doing an event where you could use both french and english, I was so excited that I couldn’t say no!

Concretely, what is your role in this session?

As the president, I’m responsible for first of all, the chairs’ team. So myself and Eoin, the vice-president who is really helpful with everything, we are responsible for making sure the chairs are able to lead teambuilding and facilitate discussions. I am also there to make sure that the whole session runs smoothly.

What are you expecting from this session?

Well, first of all, I’m really hoping it works out great with the committees doing work in both languages. Second of all, I’m really curious as to what kind of proposals are going to come

out of the topic. The topics have been left rather broad so it gives the delegates a lot of space to come up with their own solutions and to define their problems in a way that they find fit.

Therefore, I’m looking for some creativity but also some academically backed research and very interesting proposals and vision. I think it’s very interesting for myself as well because I haven’t been that involved with environmental topics previously.

According to you, which are the qualities of the perfect delegate?

I think the best thing a delegate can try to do is be open-minded. It’s all it takes to experience everything the EYP can give and benefit most from it. You know, you come to the teambuilding the first day and you don’t know anyone in the committee and you may feel slighlty awkward but just be open-minded, find out about the people, find out about what they’re doing. If there’s a silly game play it because the game also has a purpose. If there’s a complicated topic that you may not know nothing about still, do a bit of research. Even listening to others will help you.

If you had to give an advice to the delegates, which one would it be?

I’d say be the best version of yourself you can. You don’t have to be the loudest person in the room, you don’t have to be the smartest person in the room but if you do the best you can do than that will be enough. I know everyone here is smart and interesting

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and has something to contribute to the group. So if they just show themselves to the rest of the people here, that’s gonna make a great session!

To finish, what is the funniest memory you can recall from EYP? This is slightly embarassing. It was a regional session in Sweden and we were playing a game between officials: assasins game. You have to “kill” a person by kissing them on the neck. I had an organizer and she was a blond Swedish person. I thought I saw her sitting in the hallway in the evening preparing work.

I was really happy because I could kill her without her noticing. I thought “yes!

I’m gonna do it”. I came up to her, I “killed” her and she turned around and that was not the organizer! That was a delegate who I had not spoken to and I was really young as well. I hadn’t been to many sessions and I didn’t know how to deal with these situations. It was horribly embarrassing and I apologized, I said “so so sorry, I thought you were someone else!” and I ran away.When I saw this official, everyone laughed really loud! Throughout the session we kept playing the game and myself and the session president ended up being the only two people alive. So I was chasing the president who was running away from me (laughter). So always be sure who you are playing the game with!

By Louise Mathieu and Vera Ioos.

Trucs et astuces With these simple everyday tasks, you could not only change the environment of today but also benefit from many different advantages.

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While you are at home, you could easily apply the 3 R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) by recycling different materials such as plastic bottles, glass bottles, batteries and mobile phones.

Moreover, you should restrict the use of water as much as you can and reduce the air that leaks in your home.

Try to walk when you can!

When you travel, use as much as possible the bike, public transportations and carpooling!

And if you need to travel by car, try to reduce your car weight and use low green gas vehicle in order to decrease the emission of gas.

You should even adopt an electric car!

Finally, you should also administer solar panels, which would vastly decline the use of electricity.

You will save a COLOSSAL amount of money.

- A recycled glass bottle can power a computer for 25 minutes.

- We throw away a tremendous amout of wood and paper each year, which could in reality heat 50 000 000 homes for 20 years.

- While you read this sentence, 50 000 12-ounce aluminum cans are created If we recycled a single run of the Sunday New York Times, we would save 75 000 trees.

- You will be and in a better shape!

-The skin benefits from the reduction of gas emission -These travel tasks will generate a peaceful community -You will considerably save money 25 % of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions is caused by transportation. Also, do not forget to turn your computer and the lights off each time you do not use them anymore!

A recent study made by economists from the university of Yale, Harvard, and Chicago proved that pollution shortened lives of 660 million Indians in 3 years.

By Leanna Reeves.

Vera Ioos, journalist

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MICRO-TROTTOIR

Que pensez-vous du commerce de crevettes au Moyen-âge ?

Voici les réponses de nos délégués : Alexis Goubin : Je ne suis pas sûr qu’au Moyen-âge il y avait des filets de pêche sur leurs bâteaux.

Elles devaient passer à travers les mailles, c’est surêment par hasard qu’ils ont découvert les crevettes.

Puis les conserver devait être compliqué, alors le commerce devait l’être encore plus.

Mathias Gignot : A mon sens la crevette était essentielle au Moyen-âge, notamment en Europe du Nord. Elle était auparavant une ressource incontournable, internationale, puisque facile à manger : Tu la prends par la queue, tu la manges par la tête, ou tu la manges par la queue et tu la prends par la tête. On peut se permettre de penser que la crevette est un élément clef du développement de nos sociétés.

Océane Crétot et Masha Skoudina : Je pense que le commerce de crevette était fructueux au Moyen-âge car il s’est perpétué aujourd’hui, nous pouvons donc remercier nos ancêtres qui nous ont permis de manger des crevettes hier soir dans la paëlla.

Souraya Bureau répond à la question en citant ses recherches : « Les crevettes ont pendant le Moyen-âge fait concurrence aux crustacés d’eau douce comme l’écrevisse. Les crevettes, escargots et grenouilles font ainsi partie des festins médiévaux. Au fil des siècles, coquillages et crustacés suivent les mœurs et les techniques culinaires à travers des recettes traditionnelles. » Délégué anonyme : On tend souvent à l’oublier mais la crevette, au sein de l’économie médiévalo-capitaliste, a tenue une place on ne peut plus prépondérante. Je me souviens, mon aïeul Jean-Eudes De Mont miraille aidé de son ami Louis Le gros, roi de France s’était fait une grande graille royale à base de crevettes à la mayonnaise. Cette grande bouffe avait presque menée à elle seule à l’extinction de l’espèce Melicertus kerathurus.

La mediateam a choisi volontairement un sujet complètement hors contexte ayant pour but d’éveiller votre attention (et voir si vous lisez bien tous ! ). En mêlant humour et sérieux, les journos ont ainsi voulu vous étonner afin d’entretenir votre curiosité pour notre production. Il est de notre ressort de vous amuser tout au long de la session, en voilà une jolie preuve!

By Louise Mathieu

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Yves Rocher replante la planète En 2007, la Fondation Yves Rocher s’engage aux côtés du PNUE (Programme des Nations Unies pour l’Environnement), un organisme de l’ONU, à travers l’opération “Plantons pour la Planète”. L’objectif est de planter un million d’arbres à travers le monde en espérant qu’en finalité, jusqu’à un milliard d’arbres seront plantés chaque année.

Les objectifs Naissance de l’opération

Le premier objectif était de planter 50 millions d’arbres d’ici 2014. Pour l’instant, près de 47 millions d’arbres ont été planté.

Mais où ces arbres seront-ils planté? Yves Rocher à pour objectif de planter un million d’arbres en France, trois millions en Russie Arkangalesh, 15 millions en Inde et 17 millions en Ethiopie. Dans ces pays, les ONG et populations locales s’occupent de la plantation, financée en amont par des donateurs uniquement. Concernant l’opération “Plantons pour la Planète”, l’objectif final est de réussir à planter au minimum un milliard d’arbres à travers le monde, chaque année.

Connaissez-vous Yves Rocher, la marque de cosmétique végétale ? Et si je vous disais que cette marque n’était pas qu’une marque de produits de beauté mais également une marque “engagée”.

Plus d’explications, la Fondation Yves Rocher mène un parcours impressionnant. Le parcours de l’opération: “Plantons pour la Planète” qui débute en mars 2007, à Nairobi (Kenya). Jacques Rocher, fondateur et Président de la Fondation y rencontre Wangari Maathai, la première femme africaine à recevoir le Prix Nobel de la paix, également marraine de la campagne “Plantons pour la Planète” créé par le PNUE . Cette rencontre l’inspire alors à s’engager à planter un million d’arbres, notamment grâce à l’aide des clientes Yves Rocher. La Fondation a pour rôle de collecter des dons qu’elle reverse a des associations spécialistes de la reforestation.

Comment planter son arbre?

Vous avez 5€? Alors plantez votre arbre! C’est simple, il faut se connecter sur le site “Yves Rocher, Plantons pour la Planète”. Ensuite, il faut choisir le lieu de plantation. Enfin, on nous propose une quantité d’arbres à planter, le prix varie de 5€ pour en planter 10 jusqu’à 50€ pour en planter 100. En plus, la sûreté de l’opération est garantie et ‘la Fondation Yves Rocher s’engage à un suivi précis des opérations’.

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-So, Andreas, is this your first experience in EYP? -Yes, this is my ver y first session.

-What do you expect to gain from the session?

-First of all I expect to meet a lot of people and discuss with them in English. In that way, I will also have the chance to practice my skills.

Fur thermore, since I am ver y

-Violette, is this your first time participating in an EYP session?

-No, it is my third! All the previous times I was a delegate as well.

-Do you have any expectations from the session, and if yes, which are these?

-Well, I expect to have loads of fun and meet a lot of people, like in every EYP session. Also, I find the topic on environment extremely interesting so I hope that debates on the general assembly will be very fruitful.

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interested in politics and economy I hope that I will gain fur ther knowledge on these topics through the session.

-What are your impressions so far?

-I have no complains at all. I enjoy it a lot, ever yone is ver y polite and in fact, I already feel confident with my co delegates.

We actually enjoy discussing.

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-What can I say… There is a wonderful team of organizers and a well promising team of delegates! I am very happy!

-What triggered you to apply and participate in a session for the third time?

-Once you star t EYP you simply cannot stop! One day I heard at my school’s corridor by some other kids that there is going to be a session in Trouville. That very first moment I decided to apply, without second thought! I just DID IT!

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get involved in the EYP? -A friend of mine was going to EYP debates so I decided to tr y it. I liked it a lot and that good fir st taste brought me here!

-Bénedicte, do you have previous experience in the EYP? -No, this is going to be my first session.

-Can you tell me which are your expectations from the session?

-To be honest, I thought that more people would speak in English!! But, apart from that, I expect delegates to discuss about important issues and have some high-level debates.

- Are you enjoying the session?

-Very much! Teambuilding is very cool, and the atmosphere created is very friendly. Despite the fact

that I have come here with a delegation, I actually came closer to people that I haven’t met before. I am not exactly sure on how it is going to go, but if it continues like that, then I am sure that it is going to be awesome!

-How did you learn about the session in Trouville and generally about the EYP? -In the beginning of the year a few people from the EYP office came to our school and informed us about this project.

- Is it your first session in EYP? -Yes! - In what way do you think you can take profit of the session?

-The session is great for meeting new people whom, differently, I would have never met in my life. I also believe that my participation in such sessions will be a significant qualification in my C.V.

- Are you having fun till now?

-Of course. Everyone who is participating is awesome and we do a lot of funny things.

Committee work today is really interesting and the golden rules we have put make us test our limits. Until now the team is working efficiently.

-Is it your first session in EYP Clara?

-Yes, it is my very first session.

-What are your expectations from the session?

-Well, I have been allocated in the committee of Economy, so I wish I can further expand my knowledge on that domain. Furthermore, I would like to meet new people and of course I cannot wait for the Eurovillage

-Erwan, you are a new member in the EYP family?

-Yes, this is my first time participating.

-Do you expect something in particular from the session?

-Meet new people, for sure, and learn a lot of things. Moreover, I expect to share knowledge and experiences with them.

-What do you think of the session now that it has reached its second day?

-Everything is really cool. I particularly enjoyed teambuilding and adored the Eurovillage. As for my committee, DEVE,

- How did you learn about the session?

-Firstly, it was Monsieur Lenoir who informed us about the session. In the beginning I was not really motivated, but then a friend of mine called and suggested me to apply. So I said, why not? And of course I do not regret it!

to come! I am over excited about tasting all the delicacies.

-How is the session going so far?

-I am very happy about my committee, everyone is very nice and we have started discovering some common points we have!

In addition it is a great chance to improve my language skills.

-How did you learn about the EYP?

we are cooperating very well although sometimes we cannot make a decision easily since we are five boys.

-How did you make the decision to participate in the 1st Normandy regional session of EYP France?

- To tell you the truth, I have been waiting a long for this time to come. I would have been a delegate in The National Selection Conference in Rennes but finally, I had not been selected. Definitely, it was worth waiting!

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-I have never heard about the organization before the attacks in Charlie Hebdo. After the incident, the school decided to organize debates about it every Tuesday and I took part. That’s how I am here today!

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10 reasons why to get involved (and stay involved) in the EYP

Committee work will reveal that there are more than one perspectives on the same topic and help you realize that it is always important to think out of the box.

2 You will have the chance to improve your team skills since the conclusion reached is always a result of compromises

At the same time, you can further develop you leadership skills by arguing for your opinion and by trying to convince the members of your team

The experience you will gain can play a significant role to your future steps in job market

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The participation in EYP will act as a catalyst and trigger you to learn more about the European Parliament and The European Union in general.

This fact combined with the ultimate need to have well informed and active European citizens can lead to a bright new future for the Union.

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If you are a person that can hardly stay in a country for more than a month, EYP gives you a great chance to travel around and fight against boredom For the “gourmands” ones, EYP sessions provide you with the absolute opportunity to taste a variety of different countries’ delicacies

You will meet friends who will accompany you for a lifetime. No need to say more about that :).

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You might be around your twenties and be expected to act like a proper grown up, but EYP does not have these kind of demands from you. In fact, here everyone becomes a child again by singing absurd songs or trying to pass through a spider web…

Undoubtedly, you will create memories that will make you smile (or feel embarrassed) for the rest of your life!

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Be always open minded and ready to compromise. Flexibility is always rewarded

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Do not be afraid to raise your voice!

Your thoughts and points are valuable during committee work Be well prepared and organized. It is crucial to gather adequate information before the session so that you can discuss it with your co-delegates and contribute to the debates Listen to your superiors’ directions (aka chairpersons), believe me they finally DO know better!

Do not forget that you are part of a team so team spirit is something more than essential Days in EYP are usually veeery long so I suggest you to take profit of the coffee breaks and relax by drinking a cup of coffee or getting to know each other. Also do not forget to write your thoughts and feelings on “Delegates’ corner” and share your secret with us by using the Gossip Box! :D

Create your own memories and keep them well locked inside your head. They will be a reason for you to smile a million times in the future.

Make sure you have a nice dress or suit for the opening ceremony and the general assembly. Clothes can actually make the difference sometimes!

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Find time to sleep. We all know that you might be nervous and anxious but staying awake the whole night in order to get prepared for the general assembly will not help! We do not need zombies but real delegates!

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Put your mustaches !

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Z L’ERREUR

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Nous avons donc décidé en contrepartie de présenter une mosaïque de photos de certains délégués qui ont accepté de poser, sous le thème de la moustache !

Une intrus se cachait parmi toutes vos photos.... Il s’agissait de Louise, la journaliste qui se faufile parmi les délégués ! (1ère photo en bas à gauche) p. 19

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