MGERB with two ideas for Balkan youth partnership in its section of the Balkan forum of PP GERB

15/12/08

GERB’s youth organization - MGERB took part in the Balkan forum “Balkans: together on our way to our mutual European future”, which took place in Varna from 11 to 13 December. The image of Balkans without borders was presented to other youth organizations, members of the European People’s Party (EPP).
Two suggestions were given during the youth panel, whose moderators were Monika Panayotova - chairwoman of MGERB, Kalin Zahariev - member of National Executive Counsel (NEC) of MGERB, Pavel Hristov - district coordinator for MGERB Varna and Pavel Anastasov - member of MGERB Sofia.
The first one was to create a youth exchange program, whose target group will be young people (below the age of 31), who are members of Balkan parties from the EPP. The idea is representers of these parties to visit their neighbor countries and then meet again in Sofia in December 2009 for a Winter University. The aim is young people to get to know each other’s culture, values and opinions and to look at them from the perspective of their integration in the large European family, putting accent on what bring us closer, rather than what puts us apart.
The second suggestion was to create a “Right Balkan youth network”- internet portal, which will give information about the countries in the region, their history and culture. It will also be a place where young people can find details about their organizations’ activities, gather ideas and best practices from their colleagues from other countries.
Both suggestions were well accepted, which further motivated participants to give more ideas. Thus, completely spontaneously Dr. Milen Vrabevski - member of the commission for foreign affairs of GERB and member of NEC of Entrepreneurs GERB offered to support the execution of the annual meeting of young people from the Balkans under the aegis of Boyko Borisov in 2009 on the matter of: “My future in united Europe”. Mr. Nickolay Mladenov , Member of European parliament (MEP) offered to co-organize with MGERB and Mrs. Vessela Cherneva - member of the European Counsel of foreign affairs and program manager of the Center for liberal strategies, scholarship/ internship for two students in the field of European integration and foreign affairs.