the umeå 2015 media team - the issue

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Table of ConTenTs

ediTorial

“bring Your own Cup”

susTaining our fuTure

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would You like some CoCaine w/ Your guinness?

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emoTions Versus emoTiCons

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Aaron DanielAda Margrethe Paulsen

Agnes Karin Maria SundbyAgnes Åstot

Alexandra FadeevAlice Brown

Alicia SjöbergAmir Farookh Esaias Qazi

Anastasia MadkurAnn-Sofie Koutsis Olsen

Anna HultengårdAnton Erlandsson

Atran GebregziabherAugust Sunnemark

Ban ShareefBeatrice Kühn

Celine Gram HansenCharlotta Borglin

Christian Alexander SchulzChristopher Daniel Godina

Clara KorsgrenDavid Ohlin

Dora Zhivkova DimitrovaElliott SyrénEmily Brown

Emma Johansson WalterEmmy MaredEric Axdorph

Erik CenterlindErik Lundgren Nordin

Evin BadrniyaFelix Faltings

Frida ErikssonGabrielle Johansson

Gustav WallgrenHannes Lundkvist

Ida KvarnbrinkIsabelle Beaunez Lundqvist

Isak EkmanJack BreretonJamila Elouali

Jennifer Holmgren Joakim Agri

Johanna DavidssonJohn Backsund

Jonathan WennerlundJulia Alsterberg

Julie FiskerstrandKarina ChammasKatarina Bergroth

Katja HäglundKenneth Muldbak

Kirti LickfettKlara Asklund

Klara LundqvistKristin Marie Emaus

Lars LundgrenLina Brandé

Lizy Lundin AlvaradoMaja Landin

Maja SällMandelina Sandström

Martyna SzumniakMatthias Masini

Melker ZetterqvistMinea Lindqvist

Moa BoströmNaja Yssing

Natalie MörtlNelly Gunnarson

Nike Norberg-VanhoveNora FatihOda Aga

Olivia Hatamian SjölundOscar Engel

Philip JohnssonRebecca Ternström

Robin ReimersSagal Yusuf Muhamed

Samuel RungeSanna PerssonShila Husein

Siri BlombergStina Jiang

Susanna PesonenTemisan Hambraeus

Tilda NilssonTove Larsson

Victoria FrantzViktoria Wnuk

Vilma Odengard Walter Berggren

William Dieden RichterYasmina BaladiZackarias Blad

Alexander BratthallAlice ReichelAnil Kabal

Anna Clara Örtendahl Beáta Veisová

Christina AbdulahadDorothea Weber

Emil JuslinErik LewenhauptFelix Makarowski

Flora BöwingGiorgi Gugenishvili

Giulia Bandera Hannes Ahlvin

Ida Ståhl

Iman SlakaIoanna Yiallourides

Irem TümerJanne VanhemmensJeroen De Marteau Jesper Thunström

Joel HaldosénJosefine WallenåKlara Strindlund Laura HibberdLauri LahtinenLeon Furuskog

Love HerénMaria KöppingNada Hussein

Nicklas KövameesNoura BerroubaOliver StenbomOlivia Rashidi

Quentin BertinoRana-Pascale Wehbé

Rebecca SmithRebecka Madsen

Sabrina Ariana MellerowicSigrun Fagerfjäll

Simon Sjöström GrönkvistTobias Satlow

Triin NaudiTua MalmbergZain Mumtaz

Delegates

Officials

You’re not going to read this. But I think you should. We haven’t been here throughout the session to waste your time. We haven’t been here all session to take your next profile picture, but we have been here all session for you.

We’ve been here for you to be able to look back on this session and remem-ber it as a memorable first step into EYP or to remember it as that really fun weekend where I solved a prob-lem that affects millions of people in the EU. You are holding in your hand a small physical piece of the Umeå 2015 media team. A customised, personal, interesting, relevant piece of the ses-sion with your name on it.

New Year 2015 marked Sweden’s 20th year in the EU. As a country and a continent, the progress we’ve made is remarkable. From huge trade and currency projects to limiting the cost of a roaming megabyte. Perhaps Scotland’s recent “Better Together” slogan should rather be applied to the continent.

You're not going

Umeå — 11th National Session of EYP Sweden

You're not goingThe youth of Europe isn’t doing too bad either. The EYP is huge. 1452 resolutions, 783 days of EYP and 28,294 participants in 2014. In the same year, EYP

Sweden alone had 1300 participants and 70 days of EYP. “I’m not sure how” is not a legitimate excuse for not tak-ing one of the thousands of opportuni-ties each year. If you enjoyed this ses-sion - your next step in this organisation should be very easy to take - pick a few sessions, apply, and go. There are very few organisations with such structure and such an active, clever and kind base of volunteers. If there ever was a good time to do something useful with your time, now’s the time to start. If not you who, if not now, when?

You’re not going to read this. You’re not going to use the power this session has given you and discover Europe and its youth, and your life might go on without you realising what you missed out on.

Prove me wrong.

To Read This.

5a delicious experiment

“Sustaining Our Future”

“Damn, not one more thing I need to bring you may have thought”, at least that was what I thought. Now I need to find a mug I can use during the session and on top of that I need to fit it in my already full bag. Let us be honest, this thought passed all our minds, but the truth is that the rea-sons for the head organisers asking us to bring our own cups were rather environmental than economical. We asked Jes-per Thunström, a member of the session’s organising com-mittee, how they reasoned while making this decision and he gave a clear, straightforward and simple answer.

If we take a clos-er look we can see that the dis-posable mug is cheaper (and sometimes more env i ronmenta l depending on which cups you are comparing it with) to produce, and one dispos-

"BRING YOUR OWN CUP" NUISANCES

”A pretty obvious aspect is that it eliminates some costs for us, but that is a very minor de-tail. The biggest reason why we encourage all delegates and officials to bring their own mug for coffee breaks and such is for environmen-tally sustainable reasons. At all other sessions, every coffee break means a new paper mug, a new plastic mug, a new styrofoam mug etc. So by eliminating the redundant cycle of using ten unrecyclable mugs in one session all the participants will use the same mug which is

washable and reusable.” - Jesper Thunström, member of the organising committee

BY reBecka Madsen


"BRING YOUR OWN CUP" NUISANCESable cup compared to one reusable cup is more environmen-tally friendly, but the likelihood that you would use the same disposable cup throughout the session is very small (let’s be honest). Bethany Wylie, a former student at Stanford Univer-sity, concluded that the difference of the two types of mugs is so small that you just have to use the reusable cup a couple of times to make up for the difference in price between the two different categories.Assuming that you use one disposable cup each coffee break and we are here for four days with three coffee breaks per day. That would make for 12 cups per person, 1700 for the session and a total of 180 kg of waste. Hoping that nobody breaks their mug and can use them for many more years, the waste becomes 0 kg when we bring our own.

So the tiny nuisance it is for you to bring a cup to the session is actually doing something good, and after all, these small “nuisances” are what we all should be doing for the future of our planet. 98%

2%The chance of you

throwing Your

disposable cup away

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7A Delicious experiment

It gives us warmth, it fills our lungs with air, and it keeps us alive. It is the sole reason for our existence yet we remain to show it the same respect. The earth is slowly dying and its pre-cious resources that we’ve misused for so long will no longer be in the future. There needs to be a change, a change towards a greener globe where we take responsibility for the damage we have made and start striving towards a goal that shows kindness to our earth. The question of the EU’s future is an essen-tial one for it to improve and grow, which can only happen through sustainability. Will the EU progress into a stronger, far more efficient organisation, or will it fail in the public’s eye? We at this session bring this up because discussing the matter opens up the opportunity to develop the best possi-ble outcome for the future of the EU and the future for us. Naturally, a sustainable Europe would involve a stabilisation strong enough to prevent market failures or any form of de-struction of the society. This could be anything from securing the job market to infiltrating the education system to improve it. However, the most obvious solution and the one related to this session is the environmental sustainability. It is an issue not only

Sustaining Our Future


the EU is facing, but it involves the entire world, too. Its impor-tance cannot be emphasised enough, yet the topic faces a large ignorance. We are slowly killing what was giving resources to us so freely and we are doing nothing to stop its misery.

Firstly, the implications of not sustaining the future are severe.. Fhere will be no chance of making progress in the society since it will be busy solving every issue at hand which leaves the citizens unsatisfied. Secondly, there is the issue of global warming which in itself leads to several other corruptions such as the whole ecosystem being destroyed. Therefore we have to take it as our responsibility to so prevent it from further happening. We have to make sure that the world does not continue to suffer from the consequences of our actions. As clichéd as it might sound, every single par-ticipant here at Umeå as well as the youth of today is the future. We will be the next gener-

ation to lead the society and what we decide to do can be rev-olutionary. Learn something from this session and its message, take it with you and remember it the next time you turn off a light or recycle a can. We will have the power to make mother earth flourish again, so let’s take the step toward a greener so-ciety and make a change.

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#U m e å 2 0 1 5 n s

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Sounds illegal and unlawful but is it?

The world got quite a laugh when it witnessed the Irish people wake up, in a daze, to a day of legal drug usage.

A cop could no longer dodge

a paraphernalia-using out-law because they were sud-denly a law-abiding citizen, although only for a few days.

On Tuesday the 10th of March, the Irish Court of Appeal ac-cidentally created a loophole which in turn would legalise many recreational drugs in-cluding ecstasy and metham-

phetamine. Leo Varadkar, the Irish Health Minister, said: “All carry health risks... and can lead to death.”

The government of Ireland abruptly started preparing an emergency legislation to fix this loophole. Eventual-

ly the emer-gency law was moved through Irish

legal procedure and was signed by the President of Ireland on Wednesday 11/3). The signing of the legislation means that by midnight on 11/3, the drugs would be ille-gal to possess again.

One could only imagine how Sweden and its citizens would react if the government im-

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME COCAINEWITH YOUR GUINNESS?BY rana-Pascale wehBé

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME COCAINE

plemented such a law, let alone if they did so by mistake. It is estimated that there are 30,000+ problematic drug users in Sweden and a high-er percentage of people who confirm that they use illic-it drugs on a daily basis. The large amount of drug-using citizens would spark a very high controversy in the coun-try quite similarly to what occurred in Ireland. Especial-ly considering that Sweden is very strict regarding their un-lawful substances and hardly distinguish between soft and hard drugs.

Rebecka Madsen, 18, said: “I believe that the legalisation of drugs would not get an ex-aggerated reaction from the

citizens of Sweden due to the harsh attitude surrounding drugs Swedes have experi-enced growing up”.

The sensitive and taboo sub-ject of drugs has brought up many discussions up for de-bate but Europe for now will keep its stance regarding drugs.

In other news, Ireland’s ref-erendum on s a m e - s e x marriage will take place on the 22nd of May. Hope-fully the passing of the law won’t be accidental.

WITH YOUR GUINNESS?


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Welcome to the 21st cen-

tury - likes determine self

worth, swiping right means

attraction, ‘following’ does

not mean going after

somebody and ‘friends’ do

not even recognise you in

the bus stop. In the Unit-

ed States only, an average

female university student

spends an average of 152

days per year on their mo-

bile phone. Ironically, these

touch screens are the ones

that are making us lose

real touch.

Although technology has

its positive sides in addition

to the negative ones, the

amount of time wasted

on senseless web activity is

taking alarming measure-

ments. Just because we can

be available online 24/7

does not mean we should

be. Life is about so much

more than web-surfing. In

50 years, none of us is go-

EMOTIONS VERSUS

EMOTICONS

by Triin Naudi


ing to remember the mo-

ments spent on Facebook.

The memories that count

are the opposite ones -

memories made outside

virtual world.

The world today is chang-

ing second by second.

While technology can in-

deed replace thousands of

workers, it can never re-

place a human being - its

true emotions and intima-

cy, eye contact and hug

warmth. We need each

other more than plugs. So

imagine that you had 152

extra days each year - how

would you use them?


E-waste is a problem we’re all facing but not many of us know about.

What is Electronic waste? It’s discarded electronic devices like your old phone, charger or headphones. Many of the used electronics that are meant to be reused or recycled end up in the bin. If the electronics are not handled correctly there can be devastating consequences. If you burn the e-waste you can be exposed to a lot of harmful materials such as lead, cadmium and chromium. Devices like this can also includes arsenic, which can cause death.

Although recycling may be difficult in developing countries, there should be no excuse for not recycling in Sweden. De-spite having great opportunities to recycle your e-waste in-habitants in the European Union still ignore them. Sweden is currently one of the leading countries in the EU regarding collecting and recycling electronic waste and bat-teries. Since 2002 the EU has been developing a set of laws called ”The WEEE directives”. These laws govern the proper collection and disposal of electrical devices. The EU has set a goal that by 2022 all EU households should recycle a mini-mum of 85% of their e-waste.

E-WHAT?! BY reBecka Madsen

& rana-Pascale wehBé


We went around and asked delegates and officials if they did re-cycle their old elec-

tronic devices. What we found out was not much of a surprise. A high per-centage of the partici-pants in the study did re-cycle their old electronics while the one’s that did not recycle gave them to their a friend or kept them in ”the drawer” filled with electronic devices, which can only become a prob-lem when “the drawer” is emptied.

Now go recycle and save the environment.


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Give it to

my dad

Throw

it out

Sell it Put it in

my drawer

What do you do to it?

Do you recycle your E-Waste?

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