Athens waiting for us!

Hello to you all from a beautiful city of Athens, DEMYC crew and organizers already here waiting for you. See ya!

Open Letter

To: Romanian Presidency
Romanian Government
Romanian Parliament
Romanian Mass-Media
Romanian NGO
European Institutions


The Christian Democratic Youth – NPCDP, from Romania is shocked by the events that followed the DEMYC (Democrat Youth Community of Europe – one of the youth organizations of the European People’s Party) study visit in Belarus. We declare that is unacceptable that young people get arrested by the authorities after using a basic human right: the freedom of speech.
Following a study visit to Belarus by DEMYC, ten Belarusian activists from The Belarusian Popular Front and the Young Front were arrested and imprisoned by the Belarusian regime because of their political beliefs. These young activists are: Franak Viachorka, Anton Kalinouski, Yuras Stankevich, Uladzimir Syarheew, Kasya Krasnova, Lyudmila Atakulava, Kasya Halitskaya, Maksim Vyarnyanski, Paval Kuryanovich and Volha Kulyakevich.

These ten young people were arrested and have been sentenced for up to 15 days in prison without any justified reason. They have been sentenced to prison for “using bad language”. Some of them were beaten by the police in order to confirm their participation in a peaceful demonstration of the opposition.

The actions of the Belarusian Government prove that these political forces are against democracy and against the natural process that every country from the former USSR must follow. Unfortunately, the political regime in Belarus seems that is related to tight to the deported Communist Party and to it’s universal capital: Kremlin.
We are worried for the people in Belarus, for they must stand against such regime, witch does nothing but a political inquisition.

In any normal country, it is impossible to band the freedom of speech and expression. Including the political belief. Such actions must not repeat, and we appeal the International institutions to do whatever it takes in preventing such barbarian events in the future.

The Youth Organization of The National Pesant Christian Democratic Party– himself a victim of the atrocities made by the communist regime from Romania in the 20th century - rallies to the DEMYC and IYDU’s (International Youth Democrat Unoin) appeal, and urges world governments to defend human rights and freedom of speech in Belarus and everywhere.

Victor Ionescu
CHAIRMAN- THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC YOUTH – NPCDP-ROMANIA

Aftermath of the Belarus study trip

There were reports today that two persons whom we met in Minsk were "asked" to attend an interview in KGB.

More about it on my blog.

Also uploaded some pictures of the event.

non-formal alpen DEMYC

hey everyone!
As we already established new DEMYC tradition of non-formal meetings, we want to invite you to participate in skiing demyc in austrian alps in the first week of March (from1st till 8th). Programme is simple- we are skiing (alternatively drinking Gluhwein and watching alpen views :P), chatting and having a lot of fun :D. We will live in a cabin (costs approx. 15euro/night/person) and we are planning to buy food before and then share spendings. for those who really want to ski (like me:D), we will have to buy skipasses, what's the most expensive (I think) thing during this event. how to get there: we will sleep in Schladming or Forstau and this places are close to Salzburg, where you can get by plane. The best would be to get there by car ( I know some people are taking cars, so probably we can arrange it somehow to pick you up from the airport, when we will know who exactly is coming).
NOW, PLEASE NOTE:
1)I have to know who is coming as soon as possible, to book a cabin, so please, let me know if you are going till the 3rd of January
2)For any further infos, contact me :)
see you all in Finland!

DEMYC tropical drops

have a look at this ;)
http://www.naturalhealinghouse.com/pekana_demyc.html

Elections in Poland :)

Dear friends,


finally, after two years of neverending jokes about polish President, PM (yes, I am talking about two most famous ducks ;), polish foreign policy and tenses of very strange ideas created by our Ministers (like the one with gay-telletubbie, bcs. he's wearing a bag...), I can attend DEMYC event on which I will not have to explain why we're such a..... ducks :P
Great majority of Poles belive, that now we're on the right (nomen omen) route to become respected and developing european democracy.


and now, in a nut shell- facts:
turnout- 53,86% (polish new record!)
-41,51% of votes and 209 seats in Parliament for PO
-32,11% votes and 166 seats- PiS
-13,15% votes and 53 seats- LiD
-8,91% votes and 31 seats- PSL
-0,20% votes and 1 seat for German Minority
As you can see- PO with PSL is having majority and that's the most probable coalition for today.
(in the photo you can see election evening party we, Lower Silesia PO had on Sunday. We had a very good reason- PO got 53,20% of votes in a region and we are going to have 8 or 9 seats in Parliament).

At last, please note it's my personal opinion. MK was not supporting any political party during this elections.

Dark side of DEMYC Polish seminar :)

I wanted to write many times about the mysterious event that took place late spring this year in the Polish Tatras. Well, a lot of things happened that can't be really described by words, but some others can: car theft, gun smuggling, alcohol (over)consumption... Let the evidence speak:

Some people came in with high expectation:



Some people socialized with wrong people:


Some people just flew around:


Some people thought practice makes perfection:



Can summer school beat this?

Mart Laar about future leadership

When they tell you that you'll be the leader of the country one day, you might laugh. They used to tell me the same thing, and I laughed. It sounded ridiculous. But then it happened, and you have to be ready for that day.
I remember during the Milosevic era, I received a call from Maggie Thatcher. She asked me to go to Belgrade, saying, 'I have some friends in Serbia, and they could use some encouragement.' So I went and met a group of smart, young people. And when I told them that they too would be ministers one day, they laughed. The group was called G17 and, sure enough, some of them became ministers after the democratic changes.
You too will be the leaders one day. Both in old democracies and new ones. So you have to take advantage of time because you have to be ready for the future. Be brave and don't lose your ideals!

Mart Laar

(copy-paste by Veiko from Mr Mart Laar)

PPUY new web-page

Amigos, PPUY has a new web-page www.noorisamaa.ee.
Which is mainly a posting for general secretary to change it on DEMYC page.:)
And sorry it is not yet on english.

Veiko

Victor Ionescu book "Romanian Christian Democracy and European Christian Democracy" can be found in the editor's stand at this year's Bookfest, at ROMEXPO.