Call for applications SESSION PRESIDENT 74th International Session, Tbilisi 2013
The session The 74th International Session of the EYP will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia between October 4th - 13th 2013, under the motto “Europe on its frontiers - Deepening cooperation”. The Session President will be required to arrive a few days in advance and work on many aspects of the session, from teambuilding to topics, to be involved in the selection of the session’s chairs team and to provide leadership for the whole session and its participants. The Session President will also be involved in the development and preparation of the Chairs’ Academic Training together with the Governing Body. Participating in this training is compulsory. The CAT will take place in Berlin on 6th – 8th September 2013.
Message from the NOC The 74th International Session of the European Youth Parliament will be focusing on the wider Europe and EU’s relationship with Eastern European and non-EU Member States. Considering the location of the session with Georgia as the hosting country, the main pillar of the event will be EU policy towards it neighbors, including Eastern Partnership Countries from the former soviet bloc. The Tbilisi International Session is supported by the Office of the Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Issues, Štefan Füle. In recent history, EU has played a major role within its neighborhood through its European Neighborhood Policy, Eastern Partnership and other bilateral agreements. The IS will take place only a month before the Vilnius Summit for Eastern Partnership Countries that will determine whether the EU will make steps towards a closer integration of Eastern European states and whether Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine will be joining the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade and Association Agreements. The prospect of the EU integration is very actively discussed within the former soviet bloc countries and taking into account the ongoing Euro crises, the Union’s more active engagement with the neighboring countries can help the latter to prove their capacity to the international community. Delegates will discuss the political and economic dimensions of EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and the possibilities of the development of a more politically integrated union. During the last few years, the power of attraction of the Union has been in decline; the EU needs to bring forward the endeavors to deepen the cooperation within and outside the borders of the Union.
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