CALD Internship Report

   
Name of Intern: Kemchitra Chatraporn
Country: Thailand (Democrat Party)
Internship period: 23 May 2005 – 18 June 2005

Overview

Working in the parliament could bring an intern a new experience on European liberals and democrats systema of working. Compared to Thailand, this tremendous knowledge could develop Thai system by applying the process in order to strengthen the civil society, transparency, and openness of the decision-making towards promoting democratization in the country. In the European Parliament, all the system works very well in the way which liberality and democracy union should operate. The strong democratic system functions in the Parliament for the real beneficial with compromised interests for Member States. The political group such as Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe plays a major role in protecting the interests of European people in any of their interested subjects via the parliament system.

During the internship programme, I was assigned to work with the press group. The press group principally maintains the press conferences, launching press releases and also press briefing from ALDE group. Therefore, the group’s assignments particularly press out our group politic messages and the report from ALDE rapporters on specific issue such as the rapporter’s report on the EU and Russia relations on Human Rights and Money laundering. In addition, our leader has to work closely with the ALDE leader Mr. Graham Watson in order to send out group message on any important issues to pressure the parliament to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion and solidarity among Member States.

Therefore, the duty of press in the parliament is specific not only on the transparency, revealing parliament actions and documents but also delivers the massage from the political groups to the parliament institution and public.

Not only the press aspect that I have learnt from this programme. I have been also authorized to join any conference regarding my interests, such as the committee meeting on foreign affair, public hearing on Landmine Free etc. Due to the flexible programme, intern could be able to organise him/herself to attend diversity parliament activities for instance, open study, public hearing, delegation meetings and plenary sessions.

To sum up, working with ALDE contributes to an understanding of the function of liberty and democracy in international level. Intern will gain knowledge on European Parliament function which could wider his or her idea not only on the political interaction between European Member States itself but also the relationship with other countries in the different regions for example, Third countries. The enhancement of European international relation taking into account a global issue will brighten up inters conceptual of mind on European international politic and the power of the European Union in the world.   

 

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