Congress for ECPYN memberorganisations in Western Europe

Groningen, January 28, 2009


Dear reader,

We warmly invite you to join us in Hellenthal, Germany (near Aix-la-Chapelle), March 27 – 29, for the Regional Conference for Western Europe of the European Christian Political Youth Network (ECPYN). This mini-conference will be a training weekend for up to twenty young people involved in political organisations from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland.

The weekend will include workshops on ‘internal organisation and training of young people in executive positions’, ‘making your political positions known effectively’ in politics and in the media for example and ‘setting up local branches that last’. Most workshops will be given by experienced people of PerspectivE.
PerspectivE is the youth organisation of the Christian Union party and with some 2.500 members the second largest political youth organisation of the Netherlands. Other speakers include Kris Vleugels, vice president of the European Christian Political Movement (ECPM) and Dick van Dijk, auditor for the Directorate General for Regional policy of the European Commission and international secretary of the Christian Union party.
If you are not yet acquainted with ECPYN, this will also be a good occasion to learn more about our organisation and what it stands for. It is obviously also a good opportunity for meeting politically involved young Christians from neighbouring countries.

You can participate in this training weekend for only 35,- EUR. This includes accommodations, breakfast, lunch and tea/coffee. You can find more information and a full programme of this event at www.ecpyn.org/westerneurope .

On the website you will find an application form. We hope that you will be able to join us for this event that promises to be very educative and inspiring. Of course you are free to bring others to this event, simply complete the registration form and send it in. In case you might not be able to be there yourself, please pass this invitation on to others in your organisation who might. Please remember to send in your registration form before February 22.

If you have any questions regarding the conference, please feel free to contact Auke Minnema, Secretary of Regional Meetings, who will be coordinating it (by e-mail: rm@ecpyn.org or check the website).

We are looking forward to seeing you at our conference in Hellenthal and hope to hear from you soon!

Kind regards, on behalf of Jonathan van Tongeren (Secretary General),


Auke Minnema
Secretary of Regional Meetings

Vacantza la Roma...

ECPYN Co-president elected Member of Lithuanian Parliament

Paulius Saudargas, co-president of the European Christian Political Youth Network was elected to the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) last Sunday, October 12. Paulius who is a board member of the Lithuanian Christian Democrats (LKD) was a candidate on the list of the Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD).



The TS-LKD won the first round of the elections and is set to win the second round as well. In the first round 70 seats of the parliament are elected under proportional representation in a single district. In the second round, which is to take place October 26, the remaining 71 members of parliament will be elected in several districts under a first-past-the-post system.

The ECPYN secretariat congratulates Paulius Saudargas on behalf of ECPYN.
Read also the article on the ECPYN website.

See the Official notice of the Central Electoral Committee .

Related articles on the ECPYN website:

• EU voluntarily loses Christian values says Landsbergis


• Good local election results Lithuanian Christian Democrats


• Successful Summer School in Lithuania

Short report summer school now online

Today I posted a short report of the summer school on the website (http://www.ecpyn.org/). If you feel that something important is missing in the report, you can leave a comment here.

Documents and presentations

Besides Auke's photos you can now also find some documents and presentations that were given at the summer school in Chisinau at http://www.ecpyn.org/ >> activities >> summer school 2008 >> downloads. If you have some other document or presentation to add, please e-mail it to me.
Soon there will also be a full report of the summer school on the website and of course you should keep track of it to see whether there are any new additions to the site. If you have some news feel free to post it here.
Cheerio!

Pictures

It's a pleasure to be the first blogger on our new blog!
Hopefully, you all will join! I hope this will be a good way to share our political views, our news etc.
You can find my pictures of the summerschool on http://www.ecpyn.org/, >> Activities >> photos >> Chisinau 2008. Enjoy!