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Dear friends,

I wish you all happy 2010!

that DEMYC is starting the year with a boost:

a winter school / study visit to Lebanon in the end of February.

the DEMYC 50 year legacy of

breaking down barriers. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the anniversary

of which we all celebrated last year, we have the privilege to have

achieved peace and democracy in EU. In this Bureau's mandate, the

light of the DEMYC lighthouse is aiming towards Belarus and Middle

East. Last year our winter school in Lithuania reinforced the DEMYC

soludarity to the fight for freedom and democracy of our Belarusian

partners. This year we are inviting our member organizations to a

study visit to Lebanon, to our last event before the DEMYC Congress

in spring.

Best regards and see you in Lebanon,

I am happy to announce

The DEMYC Bureau continues

DEMYC

Democrat

Youth

Community of

Europe

P.O. BOX 25305

1308 Nicosia

Phone:

+35799453220

Fax:

+35722375200

www.demyc.org

The Democrat

Youth Community

of Europe

(DEMYC) is the

international

umbrella

organisation of the

youth wings of

Christian-

Democratic,

Conservative and

like-minded

parties of Europe.

JANUARY2010

BARRIERSbreaking down

Páll Heimisson, Chairman of DEMYC

LIGHTS ONFOR LEBANON

DEMYC STUDY VISIT

& WINTER SCHOOL

25-28 february

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Beirut, Lebanon

25-28 February 2010

DEMYC

STUDY VISIT

& WINTER

SCHOOL

As this is the last event of the

current DEMYC Bureau, we want

to make it special, informative

and filled with new experiences.

DEMYC Winter School 2010 will

have the form of a study visit to

Lebanon after the kind invitation

of Lebanese Student Forces

Association.

The draft program, technical

details and application form are

now online.

“Please note that there is a limited place

for participants and a participation fee

of 40 euro per person.

The applications deadline is the 4th of February.

See you in Lebanon!

JAN 2010

Last November

The programme

Visits to the German Bundestag

The meeting ended on Saturday

Junge Union hosted IYDU Council

Meeting in Germany. The event which was attended

by 124 people, from 36 countries coincided with the

20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

DEMYC, was represented by the Chaiman Pall

Heimisson, the Deputy Secretary General Antonio

Gasparin and the Vice Chairman Jani Johansson.

included speeches from

outstanding political figures, like Bernd Neumann,

Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Dr.

Norbert Lammert President of the Deutsche

Bundestag and Marco Wanderwitz, Chairman of the

Parlamentary Young Group of the CDU/CSU. The

highlight of the program was the speech of the

German Chancellor, Dr Angela Merkel. The

Chancellor talked about her experience growing up

in the eastern side of a divided Germany and

stressed the importance of values as democracy,

human rights, free markets and free trade that

remain under attack in many parts of the world.

, Neues Museum of

Berlin, BMW factory and to the world's first carbon

capture and storage (CCS) energy production plant

had also an added value to the visit in Germany.

Participants also attended activities in memory of

fall of the Berlin Wall.

with the IYDU

Council Elections, held under the auspices of Eirik

Moen, IDU Secretary General. Tim Dier was re-

elected chairman of IYDY. DEMYC would like to

congratulate all the candidates of its Member

Organizations who got elected and wishes a fruitful

mandate to the new Board.

IYDU

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in Berlin

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Europe

P.O. BOX 25305

1308 Nicosia

Phone: +35799453220

Fax: +35722375200

www.demyc.org

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