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Monday, October 02, 2006

Policy workgroups & New appointments


Dear friends and party members,
I am glad to inform you that the party's president, Aki Paasovaara, has backed my proposal for the creation of workgroups and has asked me to manage the groups in co-ordination with Senate Chair Brigit McCone and Board Chair Ivan Bavcevic.

The workgroup's goals will be (1) to energize and organize discussion on the policy, (2) to orderly collect and classify amendments in a centralized and updated webpage, (3) to slowly aggregate relevant information (links, references, documents, legislation, etc.), (4) to prepare reports that can form the basis for final voting by Europe United, (5) to publish the results (internally and externally), and (6) respond for the current events belonging under the policy area.

The process for creating workgroups requires any member or group of members contacting me and suggesting a chair for the group. Under my proposal, the president will approve the chair appointment, and the group chair will receive administrative rights for the corresponding forum and wiki areas. The first task after formation of the group will be to evaluate whether the specific platform needs to be revised. Then the section at the wiki needs to be set up (I will help in that until the chair can work on the wiki autonomously). The discussion will take place in the main forum, and reports, recommendations, publications, press releases etc. will be strongly linked from the forum (as an announcement).

We would like to start by establishing workgroups on foreign policy, EU structure and science as test cases. Please contact me (jllortega@gmail.com) if you are interested in chairing or joining a workgorup on any of the above policies.

I look forward to some good work ahead, but I am convinced it will also give us with ample opportunity for learning and developing friendship.

Best regards

Josep Ll. Ortega

New Appointments

Although the Arbitration Tribunal (Europe United Court) has only issued one decision to date, as the party grows there will be more work for the Tribunal to do. It is very important that all party institutions are transparent and impartial. They also need to command the confidence of party members.

Aki Paasovaara, the party president, has therefore agreed that it would be sensible to fill the two vacant posts on the Tribunal now rather than at a later date. The two new arbitrators are:


João Mendes, law student, Lisbon, Portugal. Username: JoaoMendes
Araceli Turmo, law student, Paris, France. Username araceli

Please join us in welcoming Araceli and João!


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