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EDITORIAL Tolkien wrote that “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”

Yeah, right. It’s the printing that takes the longest to finish.

Issue brought to you by Alise Golovacka, Edgars Spudiņš, Isabella Leandersson, Jānis Pētersons, Nastia Yeremenko, Nathan Hunter, Robin Rönneke Belfrage, Marek Navrátil, Merel Blok, Ieva Vīksne, Mairi Sõelsepp, Jaan Kristjan Utno, Kārlis Caune, Andre Tamm

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Are you a fashionable person? Maybe addicted to chocolate? Is your swagger on? Fashionable, addicted and swagger are all words invented by William Shakespeare. Probably the world’s most famous writer did not only invent 2000 new English words but also wrote more than 30 plays filled with love, death and emotion. In contrast to how well-known his stories are, little is known about his personal life. Who was the man behind the epic love-stories and tragedies?

Some scholars have suggested Shakespeare was a whole group of writers instead of one person. 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and several poems have been attributed to Shakespeare, so it is not hard to suspect collaboration. The main theory is that several writers decided to cooperate in order to achieve more success.

Baconions A small group of people believe in a theory from the 19th century. Another author from Shakespeare’s period, Francis Bacon, is proposed to have written under the alias of “Shakespeare”. Sir Francis Bacon was a philosopher and essayist from England’s higher-upper class who is said to have been ashamed of being a “lowly playwriter”.

The 17th Earl of Oxford The most mentioned person said to be Shakespeare was a lover of Elizabeth I of England, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Being a very talented poet and writer but also reckless and hot-headed, Edward de Vere was not able to have any governmental responsibility. Like Francis Bacon, de Vere couldn’t publish plays under his own name and is therefore said to have created William Shakespeare. This theory also explains the great adoration the Queen had for Shakespeare.

Just Shakespeare It remains possible that Shakespeare was actually just William Shakespeare. A son of middle-class parents, beginning his career as an actor and climbing up the career ladder by becoming a very famous writer, William Shakespeare is the perfect example of becoming royal. So who do you think Shakespeare was?

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EYP Be fearless!

SESSION socialise!

1 One of the bases of the EYP experience is cultural exchange and the best way to put it into practice is by communicating with people you have probably never met before. Sometimes you need to make an effort to speak up and actually enter a conversation, but this effort is worth it.

It is a great opportunity to engage in a fruitful discussion and build friendships.

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2 As soon as you arrive to the session you ought to leave all your fears behind because most of them usually stem from the comfort zone of your daily life. Thankfully, EYP gives everyone a chance to expand this zone, sometimes even get rid of it.

All you need is to make the first, and unfortunately the hardest, step and do what you always wanted to do but never had the courage.

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Experiment!

3 Creative thinking is an approach applicable to every single aspect of the event: discussions during Committee Work, performances at Euroconcert or general communication with others. To be more specific – do at least one thing that you have never done before. You can start with small shenanigans while taking a break, but do not hesitate to use fresh innovative ideas during the academic part of the session.

4 In other words, enjoy every single joyful moment that the session has to offer.

Taste the national cuisine of the country. Enter cultural dialogue with delegates from the member states; enjoy small talk during coffee breaks. Be active within your committee. Read the issues produced by the media team, party – party hard.

5 Be true and fair, especially when it comes to you.

It does not mean that you have to be overly self-centred and remain stubborn no matter what happens; it is rather about going deeper to your own self and towards growing and development by being open: open to changes, open to experience, open to life.

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THE UGLIEST MAN ON EARTH - Nathan Hunter

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To be or not to be my only friend

Being ugly means that everywhere is your toilet

Nom nom nom...

Being a circus act, juggling bananas is my life

Bananas make a mess, so I need to clean

Who doesn’t want to protect themselves from coke spills?

Since people reject me, I only have books as company.

Time to crack another camera

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GUN Remembering that we’re close to the Russian border, we have to keep an eye out for bears. This is no laughing matter. Here are some other uses: killing mosquitoes, scratching your back, getting rid of unwanted trees in your shoes, putting an end to the sun (or clouds), heating food, mugging frogs for their slime, undressing and scaring locals.

-Edgars Spudiņš & Nathan Hunter

HEALTH PACK Use food for an energy boost and the dry water for thirst relief.

SCISSORS Here are some sharp scissors to help you slice your way to success by cutting out all of the epic material provided in the survival kit. Don’t forget to take care while cutting; we don’t want a repeat of the gadget show incident.

ANTI-SLEEP PACK Ensures that the individual is cured of the disease called sleep in order to participate in the session as much as they can. Not counting the anti-sleep plaster, here you can see motivational texts to prevent the individual from sleeping.

• You look ugly in your sleep. Putting a rotten octopus besides the sleeping version

of you, it looks like a tasty pie.

• Sleep is the nastiest time thief of all time, do not support thievery.

• When you sleep, you can be more easily deported to Russia.

• It is common knowledge that sleeping in EYP is considered disrespect to the venue.

• If you say that you are tired, you could as well be retired.

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APPLY TO SLEEPY AREA

VOCABULARY

CHAT -UP LINES

TOILET PAPER

DRY WATER

DANCE TIPS

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- I may not be the best looking guy here, but I’m the only one talking to you - You must be from Pearl Harbor, cause baby you’re the Bomb - Excuse me, do you have your phone number, I seem to have lost mine - Oh, I’m sorry, I thought that was a braille name tag

1. Take the paper in your preferred hand.

2. Move the hand and the paper to the crossroads of the lower side of your back and the lower side of your stomach 3. Make a forward-backward movement with the hand repeatedly 4. When done, dispose safely

JUST ADD WATER

- confidence is everything. if you believe you can dance you will rule the floor!

- Feel the beat, move spontaneously and shake that booty.

- If you feel nervous just close your eyes and let yourself go.

REDUNDANT

SELF-ENVISIONED

MULTILATERAL COOPERATION

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APPLY TO SLEEPY AREA

DANCE MOVES

LINE REDUCING PACK SOPHISTICATED VOCABULARY When making small talk with other session participants you may notice that some people only talk with really complicated words that mean nothing.

Why do they use them? Usually to either sound really cool and smart or they are just really-really intelligent.

So here is your own list of useless words and phrases that really don’t mean too much but sound extremely sophisticated.

Use these phrases or the scary spider – can be used to astonish them and easily pass through – to cut in the line you desire.

- If I fill my pants, can I get in front of you?

- “I think I saw a mouse.” Move in front when saying this.

- I am from the staff, passing through.

- *Speak loudly in French and move to the front of the line*

EPIC PICK-UP LINES TOILET PAPER Here is the most groundbreaking discovery since the creation of fire. The piece of toilet paper included in the kit is meant for emergency situations and comes with useful step by step instructions.

In your survival kit you have a small list of some great pick up lines which can be used to break the ice with the boy or girl you’ve got your eye on.

Although pick up lines may seem stupid at first sight, knowing that both you and the person you are hitting on realise how cliché the pick-up lines are, they can actually work and prove your interest in a less awkward way.

Remember, use with caution!

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Royalty is the essence of fashion. Throughout history the tastes and whims of royalties have decided the image of what is classy, daring or dowdy. That is, considering the immense wealth and power that royal families claimed during the days of old and the attraction a princess’ wedding dress still possess to the public. Therefore it comes as no surprise that the museum curator and fashion historian James Laver states social hierarchy being one of the driving forces behind fashion development. So the history of fashion also becomes a history of royalty from the birth of the feudal system to the latest royal marriage – Princess Madeleine of Sweden.

It was during the Middle Ages that maybe the most stereotypical images of royal fashion were forever imprinted into western culture. Who has not seen pictures of a princess greeting her love from a castle balcony while wearing the conformed hennin headdress?

The most curious outbursts of the creativity of courtly wear is maybe the supershort tunic that became popular in the 1450s. Not only were said tunics short, but sometimes short enough to be banned by law as they exposed the more royal parts to the public eye.

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The focus on men’s legs that started in the late middle-ages continued into the renaissance. During this time the English court gained prominence on the fashion arena as well as the political one. Henry VII and Elisabeth I are prominent fashionistas; the first of the two is said to have spent over three million dollars on clothing annually.

Elisabeth could not have been far behind though as her wardrobe consisted of over 3000 gowns and headdresses.

When it comes to flamboyance, however, no one beats the French.

In the court of Versailles the Bourbon monarchs of France took extravagance to a new level. This is the baroque and rococo of the sixteen- and seventeen-hundreds. During the baroque period, Ludvig XIV is the prominent icon and the man to imitate. With the French Revolution in 1789, however, the rules of the game changed: suddenly dressing as an aristocrat was outright dangerous.

The royals of today, do they shape fashion? The shrill cries of my uncle’s wife when she sees the wedding dress of Princess Madeleine of Sweden is all the answer I need.

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more - Alise Golovacka

The European Union’s purpose by itself is unification of different nations, their languages, cultures and first of all – economies. Thus making everyone feel equally powerful and involved. That is why the theme of the LNC’13 is ‘’Creating base for diverse space’’ which is also one of the objectives always taken into account when drafting strategies for future actions in the EU. Segregation between nations, genders and even generations within every Member State and the whole EU has been recognised long ago. There are already hundreds of organisations working on eliminating youth unemployment or campaigns made to prevent female discrimination in the labour market but they’re still not making a visible difference; the same applies to racial and LGBTI discrimination. This is why LIBE I and II, CULT II and EMPL are trying their best to find ways of alleviating these problems in society as quickly and operatively as possible. The matter of fact is that due to differences in historical and cultural backgrounds, the same solutions and aims can not be applied to all Member States.

In addition to integrating with the EU, countries have to tackle their own inner discrimination between natives and immigrants, their languages and lifestyles. People are migrating not only from one Member State to another, but, because of low quality of life or education, unemployment or no career options, they also migrate from rural areas to cities. All of that makes the reasons of moving away from countryside even more troubling. This affects CULT I - the committee assigned to provide solutions for school closures which are one of the results of this migration.

As well as needing to address several social issues, Member States are often struggling with protecting their sovereignty or trying to agree on common regulations for the different economies in the EU. Similarly to nations, every economy also has a distinct historical and cultural background. Imagine how hard it is to maintain the same monetary policy in different economies such as those of Germany and Greece.

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is more The world would be more peaceful when all nations could be united in diversity. And as the Patron of the session Ieva Freidenfelde said – ‘’Everyone should feel comfortable everywhere, despite the differences all over the world!’’

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He’s from the lands of the Netherlands. A famous character, he has a significant title and you’ve seen him on the cover of Royalté. Providing a glimpse of the session’s president told by himself personally, mister Wim van Doorn.

Facts about Wim: Would like to – Live in Africa for at least a Year.

Suggests you to see – Galata Bridge in Istanbul Session count – Just over 30 Started participating in EYP – 6 years ago Age – 23 Studies – Conflict and development studies in London

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Wim’s duties as a president Mostly I’m trying to support the chairs. The chairpersons are constantly with their committees and I’m in a sense their leader, so I have to help them with anything that they need. It’s mostly about helping a committee to get through the session.

Apart from that I work together with the head-organisers and organisers to lead the major events. Generally I’m also the one who tries to keep the officials’ teams communicating with each other.

What Keeps Wim going in EYP. It changes over time. For me it recently became a lot about the fact that I can help other people to learn. It’s very interesting to be in a position where you have certain experiences to share with others, and try and help them to become more effective at what they’re doing. I think that one of the main things throughout EYP is to be challenged and those challenges could be, for example, a delegate going up to the podium to deliver a speech or an organiser arranging all of the funding & venues. These challenges teach many different things. I think that is really what drives me to continue.

EYP to Wim EYP to me is a place where different organisations come together. On the one hand, it contains deep and interesting discussions, on the other hand, a lot of socialising and getting to know lots of people. Added to this there is also a lot of personal development and learning about how people and groups work.

One of the first EYP experiences My second session I went to was in Rhen, France. I didn’t really understand EYP at that point. For me it was all about debating. I was really passionate and always made my points for or against something with a really strong stance. I remember that session because afterwards I changed a lot. In EYP I notice and really appreciate that people don’t take such radical stances, but actually try to find the compromise and put different viewpoints together to make each other better.

Thoughts on the session so far I think it’s been really good. Since the start everything has ning really smoothly, the organisers have put a lot of effort that everything is on time. The people are getting into lot, really discovering what this EU policy is all about. see that.

been runto ensure their topics a It’s really good to

Short advice to help one use the session to its fullest.

I would suggest spending at least a few minutes a day thinking about why you’re here.

Try to see what you still want to get from the rest few days, because before you realise it, you’ll already be at the end and if you’re a bit aware of what is going on and what you want to take out of it you will probably be able to take even more than expected.

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There needs to be an initial idea for a session to take place.

The 11th National Conference of EYP Latvia was provided one by the amazing Head-Organisers – Kate Katrīna Dreiblathena and Diāna Orlovska. Let us find out a bit more about them in this interview.

For how long have you been involved in EYP? Kate: I have been involved in EYP since summer 2010.

Diāna: And I from summer 2011.

Just looking at the extreme amounts of workload you manage to do during only this session, one has to ask: is it worth it?

K: Definitely!

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K: Just for reference I can say ticed that the national conferthat I had tears in my eyes ence had never taken place in when teambuilding started.

Latgale before. So why not this year?

Could you please explain the difference between a Were there any other candiHead-Organiser and a regular datures you considered? one from your perspective?

K: At first my idea was to orgaK: The Head-Organiser is nise the session in Liepāja, as I obliged to know everything come from there. that is happening around. We D: But in the end we settled on have much more responsibili- Rēzekne mainly because of the ties and in case of trouble we fact that it is in Latgale. are the ones to be held accountable.

How long have you been working to make this session The session is taking place in happen? one of the beautiful parts of K: We started writing the projLatvia – Latgale. Why did you ect in June 2012. decide to do it here?

D: So it has been a year.

D: Because I am the Head-Organiser and this is the place Everybody around you can where I come from. So I notice the immeasurable pasthought to myself at first: “Hey, sion you have for LNC`13. this might be easier!” And I no- What are your expectations

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K: Grand! Also that everybody is happy and enjoying themselves.

D: I agree; for me, the best part would be if the conference were really enjoyable for everyone.

K: If a single person could say that the session has been the highlight of their summer, it would be amazing.

You are both students right now, what are you studying and why so?

K: (laughs a bit) Right now I am a typical EYPer. I study politics and economics in Glasgow.

Before that I studied civil engineering – back then I was a minority in EYP. D: I studied sociology at the University of Latvia for a year, but now I transferred to polit-

ical science, so I will start my Diana, it is your home region of Latvia, how do you feel first year there. about bringing EYP to such an You ought to have other pas- important place to yourself? sions outside EYP as well. D: It is amazing; to be honest, What do you like doing in it is still a bit unbelievable. After the session we will probably your spare time?

K: When I am at university, my realise the importance of it. spare time goes into other voluntary work in different kinds Kate, why do you have such of extra-curriculum activities. an exceptional affection toAlso, some of my time goes wards the pink colour? into useless TV shows such as K: (giggles for a long time) Pink The Valleys and Jersey Shore, is just really, really cute, but I just to put my mind away from am slightly starting to drift towards purple. Right now both everything.

D: The part of my time I had off of these colours are close to LNC`13 I mostly went to Tellus. my heart.

I have not yet managed to find any other hobby in Riga, since I Lastly, what YouTube video have been living there only for best describes your feelings during the session? a year.

Kate and Diāna: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows.

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Jester’s page - Jānis Pētersons How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A fish.

When is a piece of wood like a king?

When it is a ruler.

How many members of the conservative party does it take to change a light bulb?

Why change?

Shenanigan of the day

The royal media team of LNC`13 has decided to build a new enterprise. As the agricultural industry is prioritised throughout Europe, a farm is about to be opened. A competition for the job of a chicken-sexer is going to be organised tomorrow.

The responsibilities are to take care of sorting one-day-old chicks by gender by repeatedly squeezing them until they give up and forfeit by admitting whether they are male or female.

Please send your applications now, as there are 3 eggs about to hatch tomorrow.

An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German are walking down the street together. A juggler is performing on the street, but there are so many people that the four men cannot see the juggler. So, the juggler goes on top of a platform and asks: “Can you see me now?” The four men answer: “Yes.” “Oui.” “Si.” “Ja.” A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says: “Five beers, please.”

Useful pick-up lines When finding yourself in a desperate search for your next princess to take to the London Decca Opera Gala, you are advised to use one of these royal pickup lines.

How about you wrap your legs around my head so I can wear you like the crown you are?

Inheriting 80 billion dollars does not mean much when I have no one to share it with...

Excuse me, does this rag smell like chloroform to you?

Brain teaser of the day: If a deaf monarch falls off his throne and there is no one to hear it, is there any sound?

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Since we know just how extremely creative our fellow EYPers are, we decided to give them a chance to let that creativity out. We came up with a short one-sentence beginning for stories and asked our victims – I mean interviewees – to finish the stories for us, sometimes including a few words of our choosing.

Dita, Linda & Paula A prince walks into a bar…

During his stay there he becomes amnesiac.

After a few days, when he regains his memory, he realises he is in a different country.

So, the prince from UK wakes up in Bangladesh. He starts to recognise the girl who tried to order a chicken burrito in the bar but could not because the bar did not offer chicken burritos. He remembered the logical decision to go to the gas station to buy the lovely girl a chicken burrito. But the people saw him there and they were so overwhelmed that the prince had to run away.

He reached the airport and took the first flight which was destined to Bangladesh.

the club he sees his wife – the princess – performing striptease. To save his marriage, he joins the striptease. Everybody likes his crown, so he leaves it on during the show.

The prince likes the club so much that he decides to buy it. So, finally he buys it and both he and the princess make the club a really classy place... with royalties stripping occasionally.

Wim & Kārlis F. You are on an airplane and it is going down quickly…

Include: giraffe, volleyball, disco, cannon Kārlis – who is currently crashing with the plane – and Wim by his side start to fire the cannons in order to kill giraffes. They do this because they are disco fighters out on a mission to destroy the giraffes that keep on winning all of the volleyball games they play against humans.

Three lovely, yet anonymous delegates You are on an airplane and it is going The prince also remembers that he was drugged before (that’s why the memory loss) down quickly…

– probably by the same girl who craved for Include: umbrella, curtain, fish, season, the burrito. She wanted to seduce him. caramel In the end the prince buys Bangladesh and becomes the ruler there because he likes the You see the pilot getting an umbrella to save elephant pants. himself. Luckily for him, the season is winter, so if he lands in the sea, he will survive Kate & Dita because the fish will not eat him. To survive, A prince walks into a bar… he makes a caramel ice cream out of fish.

A prince walks into a bar and he sees a sexy The only thing he salvaged from the plane was the curtain that he uses as a tent. He is beast which runs to the nearby club “Crown known to yell “Oi, governor!” and Leash”. Prince follows the beast and in

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Christine & Anette You walk in and it smells of…

Include: polar bear, lightning, plum, gamble Plum pie. Suddenly you see a lightning outside the window and realise that there is a power outage. You hear footsteps behind the door. You open it and hear a strange sound all around you. You have your heart in your throat… You see a polar bear! Now you remember the night that you gambled with Russians in your local casino. You now understand everything… the prize has arrived.

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What is in your head

- Isabella Leandersson & Edgars Spudiņš

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Why are you here?

Summer. The time of warmth, fun and happiness. We wait for it, plan it, live for it; and when it comes, we fully enjoy ourselves. And even in light of all the possibilities that summertime has to offer us, we have chosen to come to Latvia for the 11th National Conference of the European Youth Parliament. As a result, we find ourselves surrounded by young and active people reunited once again to speak up for Europe. But when it comes to individuals, the reasons behind being here now are numerous and, most importantly, unique.

As a matter of fact, the motives which guided us all here depict the most distinctive features of our national identities. This phenomenon becomes apparent when you realise the uniqueness of EYP itself. “United in diversity”, we say and find ourselves at the core of a cultural salad bowl.

All this would not be possible without the people who contributed to the cultural diversity of LNC’13: international guests. Delegates, organisers, chairpersons, journalists, editors and others. So what brought this diversity to the Latvian National Conference? See for yourself in the boxes on these two pages.

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Haga rová, deleg (CZ, E ate MPL)

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“I am here to pe el apples and pears .”

Robertas Skliaus tas, organiser (LT)

Lithu“The President of EYP me to ania called and asked come. I agreed.” gate Giedre Kazokaite, dele (LT, CULT I)

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