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Federation of Young European Greens FYEG Skype conference
Agenda/Minutes
Date: 30th January 2012
1. Opening of the meeting
1.1 Selecting the secretary and the moderators of the meeting
Secretary: Steva
Moderator: Merja
1.2 Confirming of quorum and validity of meeting
Attendance: all, but Maggie
Missing: Maggie
meeting is valid
1.3 Approving the agenda
2. General updates
2.1 Personal updates (EC members)
Reports
2.2 Office and Employee update (sec-gen)
today general strike in Belgium
went through budget together with Maggie: looks good, we saved some money
Projects
till Wednesday will be stressful, but will be ready
Admin grant: is done, MO-Numbers is filled, online App, only "submit"-button
Rev. mov. For dem.: will be done tommorow
Pilot LGBTQ Sarajevo: application draft ready before ECM
Campaign project
Transfers: previous year mostly done, tomorrow they will go through
Lawyer – Battal case: no news
Computers: ordered three computers from Germany (steva sends info)
Stickers: had skype with designer-> questionable whether we'll have all proposals till the ECM
3. FYEG statutory activities
3.1 ECM in Brussels (Terry)
Agenda
Look at the final proposal sent around by Steva
documents till wed 10.00
Sleeping arrangements and other practical issues
Firday meeting at the office
Saturday and sunday meeting at steva\s and bruno\s place
Stvea to send directions
Strikes?
no strikes next weekend
PPYO meeting and getting ready for that
agenda and briefng paper on euro-crises are sent
compilation of other docs are sent as well
Info was forwarded by Terry and Steva, short debate on Friday morning
Terry will try to make a summary till Wednsday
FYEG paper on debt and austerity (delfina-paper)
Saturday 15.00 ppc is joining
3.2 GA = will be discused on EC meeting
we need everybody to fill all kind of papers, like number of activists, addresses
Programme
ECM
MEPs to be confirmed
ECM
Fund-raising
ECM
4. Communication
4.1 Newsletter (if there are updates, Jakob)
during the trip to Brussels will be finalised
4.2 Ecosprinter (if there are updates, Jakob)
couple of applications for the board
will be included in the ECM reader
4.3 Press strategy (if needed, Jakob)
no news
external strategy paper to be included to ECM reader
4.4 Press releases
Against Neo-Nazi demonstrations
deadline for MO's is 5th
final version will be sent on 6th
Fiscal pact
deadline tomorrow at 10
Putin
meeting on 4th of february - demostrations on election
Jakob will send a draft
[19:37:46] Oshibanz3n: Ivan (Ex-EC) will be in Berlin next week. So I can also get a first hand update, Jakob will contact Ivan today
4.5 Other
MO list disfunctions
Steva will ask Hector again
5. Networking
5.1 MOs updates
Luxembourg: extraordinary GA on march 3rd
Letter about MO budgets and number of members sent?
steva updates merja's draft and sent it to ec list
5.2 GYG
Who are going to the Congress?
Terry Merja Nikola Maggie Gaya
Merja's accommodation should be covered
5.3 CDN
CDN has ECM in Belgrade, when we meet in Brussels
CDN is not able to come to winter camp
we have to find other time
5.4 Falafel Network (Nikola):
Ecosprinter article- Max
article series on Arab Spring
we should provide some contacts to max -> Jakob told him to contact Teo for his Tunis-Contact
Emily and Falafel NM
Absence of Nikola's e-mail to Jordanians
Update for EGP about Falafel activities
Demo in Tunisia and possibility to get some contacts through them
Merja will write to them
5.5 European Youth Forum/PPYOs
Initiative on Youth in Action
got a question from an MEP (Malika): hope that we'll have a chance to meet this weekend
Jan, Ska, Franziska should also be involved
6. Political work
6.1 Political Platform Process
Update by Nic
PPC:
Problem at the moment:
Serious lack of feedback. Need stronger involvment again.
Measures taken:
-Seb is emailing delegates personally. We also try and harass the WG coordinators.
-We sheduled Skype meetings on the "hot" topics These are proposals but we still wait for confirmed attendees.
-We want a reminder in the newsletter. (Nic sends to Jakob)
What you can do:
Mention this in your working group or with your MO, if you have contact.
PPC want to come to ECM (Delfina and Markus)
6.2 Green Group
No updates from my side (Terry)
6.3 EGP
Request for sending EC to Dakar - GYG congress
Final proposal to be sent, then answer asap (ask for 4 people)
Steva meeting with Jacqueline: we need to provide an overview of the basic administrative needs (and why we have them)
Long term strategy (budgetwise) needs to be ready by June. So we can propose it even to the GA
WGs meeting report
Report on the EC list
Maggie should send report from digital rights WG
Written report sent around by Terry, please pose questions
Committee voting rights
Talk to Ska and Marina, further procedure ECM
Terry will prepare input for ECM
7. Finances
financial plan next five years (input Steva)
report of finances 2011
for the 2012 budget: we'll receive it on Wednesday, they just got the info from Securex
8. Projects
8.1 Running projects
8.2 Project's preparation
Campaign (Jakob)
Campaing team is meeting after ECm - Sunday Monday Tuesday
we need time for disscusion on GA
project - we will postpone applying for project to 1st of May
Winter camp (Maggie)
Steva, Terry, Nic, Maggie, most likely Jakob will be there (for the whole time)
Merja, Nikola will still have to check with his faculty professor when he (Nikola ;-) ) will be able to come, but he should come
New prep team member
Steva sets up doodle for voting
Vote tonight!
Rio +20 (Terry)
prepteam to be selected soon, good applications already
Terry still has to do the accreditation (hopefully this week)
Q - thought we're going to do it through YFJ?
A - won't be possibly done through the YFJ, we register people through FYEG as non-observer organisation
meeting with Lena from Carl´s office successful
Youth emancipation (publication)
No applications yet, please promote -> send in newsletter
Ecosprinter publication (Jakob/Maggie)
ask to postpone prepteam meeting to February
8.3 Projects to be applied
1st of February YiA:
Revolutionary Movements for Democracy (Steva and Nikola)
no update, Steva will apply till Wednesday
Training "Green Volume on!" (Steva)
detto
Peace WG project (Gaya?)
postpone to may
LGBTQ seminars (Terry)
Pilot project application should be finalised
Morana met with Vedran --> things in Zagreb look good
migration wg project
applying for both study session and youth in action
Norma has mailed a package to Steva,Which includes almost everything one needs,except a budget. Which Steva is working on.
1st of May (?): what?
campaign, peace WG
Democracy Wg/ Green Economy/ Baltic Network - The future of the EU (Nikola)
no update on my fault- skip for now
8.4 Projects initiatives
Green Leaders... Marko (Steva)
no updates, but Jakob is interested :-)
Admin grant – FYEG to European Youth Foundation
done = to be submitted
9. Any Other Business
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