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-From your point of view, how serious influence might the position of youth possibly have on the final decision-making process?

- This influence will be serious, if the academic quality of our EYP-ers improves. We are willing to translate the resolutions drafted on our sessions into Georgian and pass them to the Georgian Parliament, in order to suggest them consider our positions while discussing the topic of youth and Euro-integration. At the same time, it is inevitable to support the growth of professionalism amongst youngsters. Pg. 4

“I consider a student and any person should get education from that source which is more comfortable and accept-able for him/her. Founding youth clubs is a sign of progress of civil education, formation of different opinions. Those generations are intermediate order between civil society and govern-ment. Existing of civil society means, that none of the organizations can provide you with perfect education and information. All of them try to reach the goals in their own way.” pg. 2

Some girls are always waiting for their prince riding on a white horse… I’m always waiting for new EYP sessions… Is there one more bright star in the sky, or is it the new soul of my own? Guess… it's my shadow that's EYP... After months of observation, multiple hypothesis, well-structured analysis and deeply reviewed interpretations, I finally came to the conclusion: I'm freak about EYP. I think they all are like boxes of chocolates - some are squishy, some are hard, some are fruity (you know who you are) and some are defi-nitely NUTS! Pg. 11

Teona lavrelashvili, President of EYP Georgia

P U B L I C R E L A T I O N S O F F I C E O F E U R O P E A N Y O U T H P A R L I A M E N T — G E O R G I A

“EYP – Intermediate Order between Civil So-ciety and Government”

“EYP is the institution, which forms each mem-ber of the organization as an independent and

rationally thinking individual.“

-What means EYP for you and what did the or-ganization gave to you?

so for me it is a lot of beautiful, motivated and energetic young people. I am sure, 90% of them will be future Georgian politicians, that is be-cause, other 10% will be actively involved in international politics. Pg. 7

Zviad Abashidze

All the EYP-ers in Georgia acknowledge the fact that they are the holders of their fortune; they are the generation, who can make changes, or at least try to make the changes and overcome all the challenges in this unstable environment. The professional experts, who were the special guests on different EYP sessions, were surprised with the high level of knowledge and the mo-tivation for problem-solving, from the side of the young delegates.

Before introducing the first member of our team, let’s agree that motivation plays the biggest role during any work, but too much of it can be harmful and can carry you out from reality. Andro chank-vetadze devoted himself to suppress this fact. In case we are carried away by unrealizable and utopian ideas during the work, he actively starts de-motivating us. Pg. 9

“The most special thing about you is independence. I see in you initiative, freedom of action and freedom of thought. If I were a teenager 18-20 years old, EYP would be a huge chance for me for self realization. What I say is that, giving this chance to so many young people, is just a great job.” Pg. 3

Amiran Berdzelnishvili

Otto Kakhidze

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EYP – Intermediate Order between Civil Society and Government

Among hundreds of active young members, EYP unites numerous educated and VIP people. Today the guests of our rubric are: Mr. Zviad Abashidze – the Professor of Political Science Faculty in TSU and Mr. Amiran Berdzenishvili – Deputy Dean of Social Science Faculty in TSU. They are ready to share us their own experience about our organization.

-Tell us about your impression when coming in EYP at first...

Mr. Zviad Abashidze

First thing I saw in EYP, is an apolitical group of dozen motivated people, who strive to develop civil education among youth in our society. Personally, I have got in touch with the work of European Parliament and I know how things are done there: discussions around topics, debates and decision-making. I accept that your modeling work of European Parliament will help youths to study this process well. That will destroy the bar-rier between Georgia and EU. This bar-rier means both po-litical and ideo-logical difference. Alternative way of education is cru-cial for this proc-ess.

Mr. Amiran Berdzenishvili

Before starting some projects with EYP, I already knew some members, who were my stu-dents at the same time. They always showed themselves like different and special ones. After coming to your or-ganization, I was convinced that reason of it was EYP.

Mr. Zviad mentioned alternative educa-tion. Most of people, especially lecturers, are minded about this very skeptically. Tell us about your point of view, do you consider EYP as the source of alternative education?

Mr. Zviad Abashidze

Educating can’t be a negative phenome-non, no matter it is alternative or not. I consider a student and any person should get education from the source, which is more comfortable and acceptable for him/her. Founding youth clubs is a sign of progress of civil education, formation of different opinion. Those generations

are intermediate order between civil society and government. Ex-isting of civil society means, that none of the organizations can provide you with perfect education and information. All of them try to reach the goals in their own ways.

Mr. Amiran Berdzenish-vili

Any person should try to get as much information as possible from the outer world. A school or university education isn’t sufficient for living further. Youth

clubs and organizations are one of the most effective ways to get civil educa-tion. My experience shows that EYP popularizes the idea of Europe and con-nects youths to all the news coming out of there. We should consider that exis-tence on European political map doesn’t mean only to be European; our ideologi-cal map should be identical to European one. Today these are different dimen-sions.

EYP, as other organizations has its aims. How do you think, how close we are to the point and how effectively are we do-ing our job?

Mr. Zviad Abashidze

EYP is the biggest organization in Geor-gia, it unites the bests among the bests. The ones, who have succeeded enough in your organization and have participated in international forums, are the most ac-tive persons in Georgian youth. I con-sider this as the example of effective EYP work: hundreds of motivated and well aimed people.

Mr. Amiran Berdzenishvili

I believe each young person can learn a lot in this organization. Finding finances for each session needs a really huge work. Only a small amount of people can trust you, when giving you money. That’s why success in this field is quite brave thing.

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”I accept that your modeling work of European Parliament will help youths to study this process well. That will destroy the barrier between Georgia and EU. This barrier means as politi-cal as ideological difference. Al-ternative way of education is cru-cial for this process. “

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-If you were an adult, why would you come to EYP?

Mr. Zviad Abashidze

The main advantage for me, is an apo-litical view of your organization. Today most of non-governmental organizations directly admit their sympathy towards some political parties, which makes their strategy political. Generally, political institutes can’t give you any kind of al-ternative education. EYP is far from po-litical beliefs and it is directed to adopt European values, sharing European experience – that is definitely an apoliti-cal sphere, which is worth to be trusted.

Mr. Amiran Berdzenishvili

The most special thing about you is in-dependence. I see in you initiative, free-

dom of action and freedom of thought. If I were a 18-20-year-old teenager, EYP would be a huge chance for me for self realization. What I say is that, giving this chance to so many young people, is just a great job.

And finally…

Mr. Zviad Abashidze

I would like to wish to EYP new motivated, edu-cated, active and interesting mem-bers, who can guarantee your success.

Mr. Amiran Berdzenishvili

I would like to ask you to stay on the same apolitical wave, so well purposed as you are today. Believe me this is the best way for strengthening your posi-tions and for making many energetic

and appealing people to join EYP.

By Nick Gigashvili

Amiran Berdzelnishvili

I consider a student and any person should get education from that source which is more comfortable and acceptable for him/her. Found-ing youth clubs is a sign of progress of civil education, formation of dif-ferent opinion.

“EYP is the biggest or-ganization in Georgia, it unites the bests among the bests,”

Generally, the European Youth Parliament and its representatives from Georgia, aim to conduct the educational projects and involve youth in current social-political processes. Apart from this, participants gain useful skills such as leading debates, critical thinking and finding the ways to reach the consensus, which by itself improves political culture in society. It worth to admit, that after the selection of Teona Lavrelashvili as a president of EYP Georgia, there have been several significant changes and improvements in the activities of the organization. Significant growth is obvious in the field of regional devel-opment. Time by time, EYP events are spread not only in Tbilisi, but throughout the whole country, so the sessions were held in Zugdidi, Dusheti and Borjomi. As for Batumi, there was an amazing international forum. At the same time the “future leaders forum” was held in respect to the International Youth Day, aiming to increase activeness of youth in current political issues. Likewise these events, there was an educational training in Telavi, funded by an international organizations. As for the role of EYP Georgia in Georgian political issues, there should be pointed out the strong relationship between EYP and governmental structures, such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Sport and Youth, Ministry of Culture and also the different committees of Georgian Parliament. So, the president of EYP Georgia is going to tell us more about these issues during the following interview.

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-Teona, to your mind, why is it so impor-tant for the new generation to be actively involved in EYP events?

- We don’t have any short-term goals. All the former EYP-ers will be successful in the future. Nowadays, there is a tendency that the youth are interested in different kinds of activities and EYP gives them the best opportunities to fulfill their goals. This organization has an obvious open-door politics and gives the right direction to the educated and motivated future generation.

-In spite of this, certain part of the society still looks rather pessimistic towards the activities held by your organization. In your opinion what could be the reason of it?

-In reality, most of the people, involved in our activities tend to be future lawyers, political experts, economists and students from the faculty of the international rela-tionships, this fact forms the stereotype that the door of EYP is only open for the specific group of people and this occasion causes the low involvement of other groups in the activities of our organiza-tion itself. Unfortunately, unlike them, there is not sufficient interest from the students on other faculties. Actually, the participation in EYP sessions is available for all intelligent students of all the uni-versities and schools as well. In order to raise the level of their attendance, it’s necessary to create the professional direc-tions and intensive propaganda. We should try to use all the resources effi-ciently and increase the popularity via spreading the information in different ways.

-Could you be specific and explain, what was the reason of creating the public rela-tions office and what positive effects will these structural changes probably have in future?

- It was one of the most special initiatives of mine. First of all we need staff and in-

tellectual resources, in order to make our work more productive. For this reason there was obvious need of mobilization. We somehow try to distribute the power between the groups working in EYP. They not only are obliged to publish the monthly newspapers, but they also have to be in intensive connection with the society in order to exchange the data on time. Our aim is to increase the aware-ness and popularity of EYP itself.

-How do you think, what is the main rea-son of the youth involvement in our or-ganization’s activities and on what princi-ples is your organization based?

-The organization is fundamentally based on voluntary principles. However, there is a serious interest from the government of Georgia. Unlike other organizations, EYP tends to be a big trampoline, which gives each of us opportunities to express and fulfill our initiatives. One more rea-

son of interest is the perspective of at-tending the international sessions. There-fore, the role of EYP spirit, which itself means the strong friendship between the participants is worth to be pointed out.

-From your point of view, how serious influence might the position of youth possibly have on the final decision-making process?

- This influence will be serious, if the aca-demic quality of our EYP-ers is improved. We are willing to translate the resolu-tions drafted on our sessions into Geor-gian and pass them to the Georgian Par-liament, in order to suggest them con-sider our positions while discussing the topic of youth and Euro-integration. At the same time, it is inevitable to support the growth of professionalism amongst youngsters.

-In your opinion, what role does EYP Georgia have in collaboration with na-tional governmental and international structures in creating the democratic in-stitutions and protecting the human rights?

EYP is the international non-governmental organization, which con-sists of 35 member states. Behind the or-ganization there is the whole group of intellectuals and ambitious students, who must believe that each of them has a ca-pacity for changing the Georgia and also the world for the better future. What is more, EYP is the institution, which forms each member of the organization as an independent and rationally thinking indi-vidual. Only after that, these people will realize that they are the guys, who must lead the world to democratic regimes.

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-How do you see the role of our organi-zation in collaboration with other NGO’s for carrying out the joint projects?

-Very optimistically. Fortunately, many organizations have a great desire to have working relationships with us and we are really interested in holding some activi-ties with them as well. The Young Lead-ers’ Forum held in August is a perfect example of this co-operation. EYP, in-deed, is thought to be one of the leaders among other important organizations. For this reason, we are going to organize some other united forums and regional sessions. It is also one of our priorities to work on certain projects in collaboration with EUMM.

-There is a tendency that EYP strongly encourages school pupils to attend the sessions and become interested in EYP events. Is it connected with some spe-cific aims? and if it is so, what positive effects might it have for both parts?

-This tendency is justified so far as on the international sessions the delegations are mostly completed with the school students. We must admit that the real resources are not only among the univer-sity students, but also we see the high potential on the school base. Our pro-jects provide the successful future career and permanent involvement in the ac-tivities of public society for the new gen-eration. Our main aim is to assimilate all the youth resources and give the right direction to them.

-How trustworthy is the financial assis-tance for Georgian delegates to attend international sessions?

-Sadly enough, at this moment we are not able to boast perfect financial condi-

tions for providing Georgian delegations with sufficient amount of money. How-ever, we are really pleased to give them a letter of reference. In case there is a pos-sibility of financing from other side, the superiority is on the side of the delegate, who is selected for international session, not for regional one. Though, we are planning to form a special department of fund-raising, which will mainly focus on obtaining money for abovementioned purposes.

-What projects are you dealing with right now and what events are planned to be held in the nearest fu-ture?

In the future we are planning lots of amazing events and one of the most important events being organized will be the Batumi 3rd Inter-national Forum, which is going to be held under the fully patronage of the president Mikheil Saakashvili, so we are provided with almost 50000 GEL. The course of the organization is unchange-able and we continue the active integra-tion process in regions. Now we are or-ganizing the sessions in Akhaltsikhe,

Zugdidi, Qutaisi, Gori and Telavi. Apart from this, in late spring, we are greeting the 5th National Selection Conference of EYP Georgia. What is more, we are go-ing to concentrate on organizing scien-tific issues, like holding conferences, ex-hibitions, forming a group of experts, who will assist the members of our or-ganization and help them to become more qualified and experienced. More-over, we are planning to send our dele-gates as probationers in the Parliament of Georgia and in the Ministry of Euro-integration as well. Also we are planning a cycle of informational meetings, which aim to raise public awareness of the cur-rent issues concerning to EYP. We should also point out, that we have just become the member of one of the most important European coalition, about which the negotiation was reached with Mr Davit Darchiashvili and we hope that

our work will be fruit-ful. Having improved the academic quality of our organization, we will have better chances of gaining EU’s grants. Besides, there is a bril-liant initiative to organ-ize a meeting with very powerful governmental

structures, such as the committees on Foreign Affairs, ministers, experts, in order to have closer relationships with them and be aware of their political course.

By Salome Kandelaki

and Sopho Otiashvili

“First of all we need staff and in-tellectual resources, in order to make our work more productive. For this reason there was obvious need of mobilization. We some-how try to distribute the power between the groups working in EYP. “

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European Youth Parliament – Georgia is currently the biggest active youth or-ganization in our country. There were 18 sessions held under the patronage of this organization and it has managed to gain more than 1 000 young Georgians and brand them under the name of EYP!

Probably most of the non-EYP-ers want to know, what is the reason of the fact that, all this people are in-terested in EYP-ing so much, why do they become returning EYP-ers and what makes them attend the sessions over and over again. Let’s state all the advantages and the valuable things, which make EYP so unique for Georgian youth.

They say that the youth power is the most dangerous power and if you direct it properly, it may be turned into the most powerful weapon of the country. As the saying goes, the energy and the enthusiasm of the young people can rule the world. We do not want to rule the country or the world (at least at the moment), but all we are striving for is, to make our future a little bit brighter and better, to live with a better life with peace, love and happiness. All the EYP-ers in Georgia acknowledge the fact that, they are the holders of their for-tune; they are the generation who can make changes, or at least try to make the changes and overcome all the challenges in this unstable environment. The pro-fessional experts, who were the special

guests on different EYP sessions, were surprised with the adult-attitude, the knowledge and the motivation for prob-lem-solving, from the side of the young delegates. We have been taught to open

the door to the talent, to the motivation and to new ideas! So here it is, EYP is a place, which gives the equal chance to every young person, to come and ex-press their ideas, opinions and discuss different global or local problems with their mates, feel the power in their hands, formula of the changes to the

better future and better life!

It doesn’t matter in EYP where are you from, what do you do or what are you going to do, everybody stands together under the same motto: “We Can Do That!” and they really can. I have to mention that during the session, the young people despite of their religion, political view, education, age or the so-

cial class, work together with great en-thusiasm and the motivation. Even this can be a great example of how great the social impact on the Georgian youth is from the EYP, meaning open-minding

and the tolerance.

During the committee works the delegates are given the opportu-nity to express and defend their positions, about the given topics. The perfect distribution of atten-tion from the side of the commit-tee chairpersons help all the dele-gates to be actively involved in

the group work or the brainstorming. Hot debates around the different actual problems, searching for the suitable so-lutions and the ways of their implemen-tation, the eagerness to defend your idea, the satisfaction reasoned from the tolerance toward your position and the happiness of achieving the consensus after the few-hour debates, is the life-style of EYP; These are all the aspects, which add the value to the EYP and, which make it unchangeable for the EYP-ers.

General Assembly is the place, where each participant feels proud of being the young delegate. They act like real politicians, make the public speeches about their resolutions, de-fend and make others believe, that they worked out the best ways of the problem solutions. They arrange the attack speeches, bombs of questions and also support other resolutions

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as well. There is no competition, but the cooperation, as they know, they all are working for the same purpose to make the life better, to make Georgia better and to make their existence better in future. General Assembly is the place where the fundament of youth development is formed and where they are given the opportunity to be ready for the bigger challenges in the future life.

The unique teambuilding games of EYP, played the biggest role in branding its name. It’s almost impossible to find even one EYP-er, who does not adore this childish games. The games that make the committee integral, make the committee members more familiar with each-other and make a huge step toward the profes-sional relationship among the delegates. Once Phillip Cutler, the founder of prin-ciples of Modern Marketing said: “... It’s very hard to work in a team where they [team members] are aliens for each-other. This is just the ineffective and in-efficient usage of time and in most cases just a waste of it!”. After playing these games, delegates become more acquitted with each-others backgrounds, they trust

each-other more and the first steps of

common ideas and values are formed there. According to all aforementioned, we can proudly say that the Teambuild-ing games are essential and this is the loveliest part of EYPing!

It’s impossible not to highlight the role which EYP plays in adopting the youth views about the world and its social im-pact on the generation. A couple of years before, when the EYP was pioneering its existence, it seemed almost unbelievable and ridiculous for the skeptics to imagine several dozen students or pupils, gath-ered in one room and discussing the seri-ous problems and the ways of solving them. We have to proudly say (and later they admitted it as well), that they were wrong! Even from the one glance to the

session you will see the youth full of in-terest, motivation, knowledge! They de-

bate, identify the problems, brain-storm for the solutions, select the best from the alternatives and discuss the ways of implementing them in a proper way and etc.

I would like to direct your attention to the very interesting thing about the EYP! The doors of the EYP are

open for each and every young Georgian, if she/he is having the motivation, en-ergy and the interest to live with a better life.

We would like to rise our heads and voices and proudly call EYP Georgia as the best youth organization in Georgia, who gives all the opportunities to the young generation for self-exploration, self-expression and the self-confidence, that they are the generation for changing the future and they are having the key for the door, to open it for Peace, Love and Happiness.

By Giorgi Gvenetadze

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Way of Success with Love of EYP

European Youth Parliament Georgia unites the most active, motivated and educated young people. Most of EYP-ers had already done their bests and represented our country in various fields. It’s interesting, what they think about recent changes and improve-ments which have been done in the organization, what EYP gave to them and what their advice to the new generation of EYP-ers is?!

I want to tell you about the person, whose name is widely known in the whole EYP. He is one of the most talented persons in the EYP. If you read one of his verses, you will be sure, that I’m right. Despite the fact, that Otto Kakhidze hasn’t lived in Georgia for two years, he is actively involved in EYP Georgia’s life and supports the organization from Scotland.

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Otto studies in Scotland, at Strathallan School. He always wears Georgian national suit -Chokha, when there is any important event or meeting at school. In spite of the fact that he is only nineteen, he is already very successful person. On the website of his school the latest news is about Otto. He won the Benja-min Franklin house literary prize, beating a recent Oxford graduate. As he told me, he has taken part in many projects. Prize of Scottish poetry was given to him from the president of Burns’ federation, because he was the best performer of Burns’ verses. After his first year at Strathallan School, organizers gave him English award. Otto took golden medal of LAMDA (The London academy of music and dramatic art) in original public speaking. He is a cadet of royal corps. He was chosen as the member of the community “Leviathan”. This isn’t a full list of his achievements. I think you are already sure, that he is one of the most talented people in EYP. Otto is going to tell us about his first steps in EYP and the importance of the organization in his life.

-Otto, try to remember your first steps in EYP. How can you evaluate the job done by the organization?

-My first session was the second national conference in Georgia. Our team consisted with the small amount of people, unlike nowadays. This already means that our growth is quite huge. I had an interview with Vakho. I didn’t know him and for some time I called him “blond” (Vakhtang lomjaria-First President of EYP Georgia). My first chairpersons were Mariko Takashvili and Oto berishvili in the committee of Foreign Affairs. On the third national session I was already a chairperson with Tamta gabunia.

-What does EYP mean for you and what did the organization gave to you?

-I don’t want to be banal, so for me it is a lot of beautiful, motivated and energetic young people. I am sure, 90% of them will be future Georgian politicians that is because, other 10% will be actively in-volved in international politics. First of all, I found many friends in EYP. Also it gave to me very useful experience, good skills and a lot of unforgettable days. For me the most important are my friends, who are EYP-ers. The relationship be-tween each other is the most valuable and I am sure, it will always be the main principle of EYP.

-What will you ad-vise to the new gen-eration of EYP? What is necessary for becoming suc-cessful?

-If you will be active, hardworking and if you will feel EYP spirit, your success is guaranteed.

-Three things you love most in EYP?

-Euro concert, beautiful eyed ladies and parties and General Assembly of course. Huh, this is the forth one!

By Anamaria Bragvadze

A couple of facts about us Some of you maybe don’t know about the main goal of newly formed Press group, about which you may have heard, but because of the lack of information or

lack of interest, you did not find it necessary to hear more about it. My job is to introduce our team members to you with their advantages, disadvantages and

strange habits, shortly saying all characteristics, which will deepen your interest and may as well become subject of judgment. Otherwise it won’t be interest-

ing and press team won’t deserve name of group, whose members are most creative, extraordinary and open-minded EYP-ers. After this preface, let me intro-

duce our team to you. You will see that it consists of 12 completely different people. This fact is the guarantee that we will never have the lack of original and

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Before introducing the first member of our team, let’s agree that motivation plays the biggest role dur-ing any work, but too much of it can be harmful and can carry you out from real ity. Andrew chankvetadze de-voted himself to suppress this fact. If during the work we are carried away by unrealizable and utopian ideas, he ac-tively starts de-motivating of us. Of course that is joke to show you his slightly pessimistic character. In fact he is one of the most creative people I have ever known and he doesn’t stop surpris-ing us with his weirdness, which is his own product. If you are interested in this person you can easily recognize him by visual characteristic, which can remind you an umbrella. (it’s pity, that everyone notices this resemblance except for him).

It is important to say that, we don’t have any age limitations in press team. Example of it is the fact that, three mem-bers of our team: Erekle CanChibadze, Anamaria bragvadze and Vass khurtsi-lava are school students. Despite their age they are really outstanding EYP-ers and their member-ship of the Press Team proves this statement once again. I will try to talk about them sepa-rately.

Vass: despite slight confusion and love of using large amount of pronouns in

sentences, his friendly and active charac-ter makes him as a great team player; also he is excellent friend who you can always count on and the main reason, why we love him is that, he is small, compact and easy to keep, that’s why we call him Vasuasua.

It is hard to talk about the person who combines so many plural characteristics in her. She manages to be outstanding in both: academic work and dance floor. Thanks to her ability of finding a common language with eve-ryone, she is one of the most perspective EYP-ers. In my opinion, having her in the group can be one of the determina-tive reasons of its success.

I am pretty sure, because of existing stereotype most of you know Erekle Chanchibadze. He often uses this stereo-type in his own purposes, but due to it he also becomes a victim of evil jokes from us. It would be proper to say that Erekle grew up in EYP and it is very sad that, he has very little time left for it, because of gradu-ating this year and also because of the fear of coming home too late, which is followed by ‘’heart-to heart’’ conversations with his father. We can talk about how meaning-less is difference in age, but the fact is that Erekle should get used to thinking

that, he will be discriminated during at least one year, because of his age.

I am sure the person who I want to talk about amazes many people around including me. I can hardly imagine how it is possible to be successful EYP-er ,student at two universi-ties, proba-tioner and also not miss any party organ-ized by EYP. As many of you may guess, I am talking about Nick Gigashvili, who as minimum can be con-sidered, as one of the most successful potential taxi drivers in Georgia, of course after graduating both universities and getting diplomas.

Now I will introduce you the person, who we can truly call the most scandal-ous EYP-er ever. Despite different opin-ions about him, we must say that he con-tributed a lot to our organization, his ec-centric and maybe sometimes annoying behavior is always helpful in promoting EYP. So in spite of everything what people can say about him, he can be considered as one of the most successful EYP-ers.

Main reason why I decided to talk about next members of our team to-gether is that, they are practically in-separable and because of that are known as TWIX. Probably this is caused by re-

Andrew

Vass

Anamaria

Erekle

Nick

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of their charac-ters. These per-sons are Sopho Otiashvili and Salome Kande-laki. Besides g e n e r a t i n g many different ideas, the ad-vantages of working with them is a real source of moti-vation, which is produced by them always with positive mood and friendly character, it helps to stay opti-mistic, no matter what problem we are facing.

Describing next person can take us far away, because of variety of her c harac t er i s t ic s , that is why I want to underline most important ones among them: al-ways smiley, hard-working, deter-mined and demonstrative- this fully de-scribes Ninia Macharashvili. Only few of us can consider himself as a dreamer, who is carried away from reality and want to live in a house with his friends. After this we can say that Ninia is not only a good journalist, but irreplaceable

member of Press Team.

Strange fantasy and ambiguous impli-cation on every issue, which many of you may can find indecent, are main characteris-tics of Tsotne Tchanturia, this is also the reason of the fact that his ideas are very origi-nal and different from others. Tsotne has ability to discuss everything in his point of view, despite the fact whether it is shocking for some people or not, but it really adds more fun and interest to the work. He is the most interesting person to talk with, because you can discuss any issue with him, no meter how unaccept-able it is considered to be. Such ability of fantasy and different thinking contrib-utes a lot to our spe-cific work.

If you have par-ticipated in any event, organized by EYP Georgia, than you should know the person who I am going to introduce: he is very sociable and has ability to find a lot of in common with everyone; thanks to that abilities, he gained popu-larity very quickly. Vakho Tsanava is one of the people, without whom I can’t

imagine any EYP activity. Despite the fact that he is very hardworking and trustworthy, he has very weird taste and habit to always have opposite position on every issue, that sometimes is reason of argument between us. He also manages to be very shy in many issues. I think you agree that combination of such interest-ing characteristics is incising diversity level in group.

As for me, you may have heard some-thing, some of that can be true and some not, but definitely it is the hardest thing to talk about myself, because I can be subjective. That’s why I think it is better to leave the freedom of making decisions about my personality to you.

I think now you know little bit about our team, whose main goal is to make EYP most successful youth organization in Georgia, you should agree that, most important role in this process is given to you, so let me wish you good luck and active involvement in this process on be-half of the Press Team .

By Jesse Patiashvili

TWIXs:

Sally& Sopho

Ninia

Tsotne

Vakho

Jesse

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Is there one more bright star in the sky, or is it the new soul of my own? Guess… it's my shadow that's EYP... After months of observation, multiple hypothesis, well-structured analysis and deeply reviewed interpretations, I finally come to the one conclusion: I'm freak about EYP. I think they all are like a box of chocolates - some are squishy, some are hard, some are fruity (you know who you are) and some are definitely NUTS! It seems to me that it's all, part of becoming an adult, the things when young people are teens they start asking questions about the values and lifestyles and about the world they see around them. I'm teen and I have so many questions (wonder if Google would help me). In EYP I found an-swers and now I'm pretty sure that I being to be strong. Personally, I believe it’s all about friendship and that's why EYP is one strong family, which is day after day building a little heaven. The reason why we are separately different from each other is because together we make a team and together we are creating something new.

Some girls are always waiting for their prince riding on a white horse… I’m always waiting for new EYP sessions…to show all that I feel spirit and I want more experience…

The 1st step is always the hardest and it's always the longest one, but it will always be the one you say you're glad that you took it. Take a step in new direction and you will never know where you will end up this! Yes, I’m glad I made my step, 'cause I enjoy my life and the people I've been blessed with.

Also I want to say that EYP is brilliantly-stupid, exquisitely-plain, hilariously-boring, surprisingly-predictable and simply-complicated, love/hate –click on the chosen button!.

Hope that you all are ready for something new. It's only the beginning...My heart is in the right place and I'm so happy be-ing happy with who I am. I find it attractive and therefore I am not going to stop till I wouldn’t get the best from it. European youth parliament is entertainment to keep one in a delightful mood... One thing what I understood from this greatest 3 days is that, there is EYP rule # 1: Delegates are not to be understood, they are to be obeyed. That's joke of course, 'cause all I learned from this 3 days of session is that I must be proud of whom I am... because EYP ensured me that I'm stronger than I thought...

Everyone around me laughed and asked me what I see in EYP, I smiled back and said : ,,everything you don't,,. Be sure that EYP can flash you all the time when you feel that you're bored. Okay now think about something positive, something very beautiful, something very great and delightful... now, I know this may be too much for you so here is a shortcut, just think about EYP.

At the end I would like to say that you’ll never learn to become old and wise, if you never lived young and crazy.

After all my truth words, it is on your own to decide, what European Youth Parliament is…

Extracts from EYP diary

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Edited By:

Tsotne Tchanturia

Vakhtang Tsanava

Iese Patiashvili

Andro Chankvetadze

Erekle Chanchibadze

Vass Khurtsilava

Nika Gigashvili

Anamaria Bragvadze

Sopho Otiashvili

Salome Kandelaki

Giorgi Gvenetadze

Ninia Macharashvili

Ani Meskhidze

Con:tact us:

Tsotne Tchanturia - 898 638 638

Vakhtang Tsanava - 891 13 13 10

Email: PR@EYP.org.ge

Web page: www.eyp.org.ge

We welcome you in the new era of EYP-Press Team.

As you know the active involvement of the youth in the society is one of the main priorities of EYP, so be informed that from now you on are having a brilliant opportunity to cooperate with EYP-Press Team.

Along with the professional articles and notes of the EYP-Press Team journalists, there will be special pages for publishing your ones.

Let’s make a real EYP spirit in yourselves and send us the articles, essays, notes, pictures and etc. which are having connection with EYP themes.

Be active, express your ideas freely and distribute them among your mates.

EYP-Press Team – For & Together With You!

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