| The Youth Convention is not a gadget! The participants of the Youth Convention must be on equal foot and selected with transparency Press release, 25th April 2002
After the last plenary session of the Convention, Jan Krims, the President of ECOSY emphasised the demands of the European Young Socialists during their Bureau meeting in Valencia-Spain, the 23rd April 2002.
Jan Krims insisted that all participants, coming from EU member states or applicants countries, must be treated on equal foot and must have the same rights, not as it is in the senior Convention: "What kind of image of the Enlargement would it be given if the young participants from CEEC could only suggest and not decide ?". Furthermore, Jan Krims pointed out the fear that the selection procedure of the participants would not be fair and transparent : "The Convention members have to hear the youth's request: they can't choose themselves directly the youth participants. We demand the involvement of youth organisation, national youth council and the European Youth Forum to give legitimacy to the Youth Convention".
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