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Discussion event
At first I introduced the project, its goals,
organisers and partners. After that we started the panel
discussion on the election of the European Parliament.
Issues discussed included getting citizens to vote,
choosing of the President of the Commission, a possible
referendum on the Constitution, supranational election
campaigns and candidate lists and lack of EU debate
prior to the Finnish parliamentary elections. The audience,
consisting to a great deal of Finnish students but also
other people, around 20 in number, asked questions actively.
After the coffee break the programme continued with
a short lecture by Mr. Lootus. The audience had mainly
changed and was now comprised of around 15 people, most
of them foreign students. In his presentation Mr. Lootus
handled the Estonian EU policy and the liberalist Estonian
economic policy vis-á-vis policies of the older
EU countries. The panel discussion on larger cultural
effects of the enlargement was broad in its topic, but
discussion was fluent and the audience was active too.
Interesting debate was created, for example, when an
American student, Jalil Jacallen, and a Polish student,
Artur Orlowski, discussed their childhoods in different
environments. Also having differents generations among
participants of the panel proved to be succesful.
Exhibition
The exhibition was situated at the lobby of
the faculty building from 21/11 to 5/12. The room was
quite spacious and brochures (also many other in addition
to the exhibition brochures) were available on a table.
Over a thousand people, mostly students of law, use
the lobby daily, so the exhibition had a plenty of people
within its reach. There were students reading the exhibition
posters from the very first minutes of the set up. The
exhibition was also shown on TV.
Public relations
We had an advertisement in a local free newspaper
with a circulation of 130 000 readers. In addition to
that the website of the European Movement in Finland
was used and mailing lists of JEF-Finland and local
student organisations were utilized, as well as advertisements
on the campus were used. Every member of IEM-Turku and
JEF-Turku received a mail invitation too.
The media coverage was quite good. There was a 21 second
clip on the regional TV news of the Finnish Broadcasting
Company and a bit lengthier one on a local channel.
The biggest paper of Turku, Turun Sanomat (regional
coverage 74% of people over 12 years of age) had an
article about the two MEPs (Ms. Kauppi and Mr. Virrankoski)
who took part in the panel discussion. On the local
radio there was a report which we could unfortunately
not record.
Teilnehmerzahl / Besucher: Over a
thousand people, mostly students of law, use the lobby
daily, so the exhibition had a plenty of people within
its reach.
Veranstalter: UEF Finland and JEF-Turku
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