European Parliament model

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In the Model European Parliament (MEP; Engl. : Model European Parliament ) is, to a plan and role-playing in which students the European Parliament simulate. The conferences take place with the same structure in many European countries; the national organizations work together with the International Foundation Model European Parliament based in The Hague .

MEP.de

For the national model European Parliament in Germany , eight pupils from the ninth to thirteenth grades from each federal state travel to Berlin for one week to represent an EU state assigned to them as a delegate .

After the delegations have been welcomed and introduced (this has taken place in the Federal Press Office in recent years ), the committee work begins. Each of the eight delegates per EU country is a member of a committee . The committees each have 16 members and are chaired by two committee chairmen. These committee chairmen are themselves students who successfully participated in the previous simulation, i.e. in the year before the week of the meeting, and who were selected by their committee chairmen at the time. The committees deal with different political problems and issues. The task of the delegates is to work out a resolution in which the problem and possible solutions are presented.

The plenary session (most recently in the Federal Council ) is chaired by the Presidium . The Presidium consists of three former committee chairmen who have been successful in their committee management work. The aim of the committees in the plenary session is to explain their resolutions, to defend them in the debate and to get a majority of the delegates to vote in favor of the resolution of the committee in the vote following the debate. For the plenary session very specific rules as rules of procedure as a series of speeches and exactly one, open debate . Once a resolution has been adopted, it is forwarded to the European Parliament , the European Commission and the Council of the European Union .

The first MEP.de conference took place in 2000, since then an annual conference has been held.

The eleventh MEP meeting in Germany took place from February 22nd to 27th, 2010 in Berlin. The 8 committees discussed current European policy issues from economic and energy policy issues to integrative and ecological problem areas.

MEP.at

Since 2002, national meetings of the MEP have also taken place in Austria, organized by the Theresian Academy in Vienna. In contrast to Germany, the venue changes back and forth between the 9 state capitals and, another important difference, the delegates act as representatives of their state. Nevertheless, attempts are being made to find solutions that can be used across Europe - the fixation on national interests is no longer necessary with this adaptation of MEP.de. In Austria, too, pupils from all federal states travel to MEP sessions, but only four per federal state. The committees are each headed by two chairmen and four presidents chair the final general assembly, which usually takes place in the respective state parliaments. An Austrian invention are the SMOs (Student Media Officers) who put together and distribute an issue of an MEP newspaper every day during the usually 3 days of the meeting. This has a different name every year, so in 2007 the "Daily Delegate" caused a sensation.

MEP.eu

Twice a year a Europe-wide “Model European Parliament” takes place in a major European city. This is attended by five delegates from each EU member state and from some candidate countries, who are divided into ten committees. The language of the session week is then English, the structure, selection of committee chairmen, etc. remains the same. Related international events are the MEP.bsr, which is limited to the Baltic region - there are several such interregional MEP associations that also organize interregional meetings - and the EPK (European Parliament Kreisau), a Polish parliament simulation that is closer to the actual one Work of the European Parliament oriented. The fundamental difference to the MEP is that parties are taken into account in the EPC.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Model European Parliament - Deutsches Komitee eV: Doing European politics yourself - The 11th session of the Model European Parliament 2010 in Berlin

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