The ROLES. WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?
European Commission (EC)
The European Commission has to care about the respect of the treaties and tries todevelop the proper legislation and defend it in front of the other institutions. This year the role of the Commission will be taken care of by the Organizing team.
Member of the European Parliament (MP)
You are the part of the only institution of the EU directly elected by the citizens, so you will represent the ideas that brought you there rather than a country. You are expected to join your political faction and try to promote your position while managing to build some temporary alliance with the othes.
Remember that in the sessions you speak to the other MP but also, and mainly, to your voters. So you will have to take care of what the press is saying about you!
Member of the Council of the European Union (Minister)
You will be a minister of one of the 28 Member States of the EU. Your role is to promote the interests of your country, but without forgetting the ideology of your party. You will have to be more diplomatic than a MP but you will also be much more powerful. Do not forget to contact your MP's. That might be valuable!
You will be on your own (only one participant per state), so you will need to forge an strategy of alliances with other countries of similar interests. Will you be able to arrive to a compromise?
Journalist
In order to facilitate communication between both institutions and to make the participants feel the pressure of the free press, a small number of participants will also play the role of journalists. You will be part of one of the two journals.
As a parliamentery journalist, you will have to create a newspaper or a small news program every day that will be showed or printed and handed to all the other participants every morning. Up to you what to put on it: interviews, editorials, yellow press, some filtered secrets about the negotiations... But the time and the number of pages of the newspaper are limited, so what will you give priority to? What will be in your front page? Will you be neutral or you will take sides?
Lobbyist
As a lobbyist you are the representative of organiced groups of interests, such as big companies, trade unions or NGOs. You will try to convince of your point of view to MP and ministers, in order to influence legislation. You will be part of one of the two lobbyists temas.
Very often, the politicians (in real life and in the MEU) don't have time to prepare very well their arguements and amendments... and if you give them some advice on the right moment... some ideas of how many jobs depend on his/her decision, how many protesters may go on the streets because of their decisions. Up to you whether to use the coffee breaks for hard negotiations or for using the press in your favour.
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In this Edition there will be no lobbyists.