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Name of Intern:
Manel
Priyantha Kulatunga
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Country: Sri Lanka (Liberal Party)
- Internship
period: 10
November 2003 –
19 December 2003
Suggestion for Future Interns
The programme
was very useful, rewarding, and educational; hence I would like to express
my sincere wishes that it be continued in the future, providing Asian
interns with the extraordinary opportunity to visit Europe, the European
Parliament and the ELDR Group.
I allow myself
to present a number of suggestions for future interns and ELDR/CALD/FNF
colleagues who administer the programme:
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Interns,
prior to arrival at the European Parliament should visit web-site http://www.europarl.ep.ec
(The European Parliament, Commission, and Union home pages) to obtain a
basic understanding of activities. The interns selected should if possible
be provided with a) "How the European Union Works" and b) "The ABC of
Community Law" ; these booklets could be jointed to the invitation letter,
for example.
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Interns,
before starting their work in the ELDR Group, should be clear about the
political field they are interested in, i.e. which parliamentary committee
they want to follow: Foreign Affairs Policy (Human Rights, Security,
Defence), Budget Committee (EU Budget), Home Affairs (immigration, asylum,
police co-operation, terrorism), Economic Affairs, Legal Affairs (internal
market), Industry, Regional Policy, Environment (protection of the
environment), Agriculture, Fishery, Culture, Development (Third World
countries), Constitutional Affairs (EU Treaties), Women's Rights, or
Petitions.
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Interns are
also recommended to communicate with previous interns, as there are: (Army
Hsieh, Thaiwan - ly56620@ly.gov.tw, So Serey Youth, Cambodia and rvsae@sltnet.lk
- Manel Kulathunga, Sri Lanka). They could get useful suggestions and
information.
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An Intern
can contact his/her country embassy in Brussels and find out about EU-related
activities. It is also important to contact the Country Desk to find out
about his/her country's EU-relationship.
- It is
better if the Group can co-ordinate Meeting of Stagiaires (calling all
inters who are following different committees in the group) once a week
and let them exchange and share views in different activities.
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