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Let me express my sincere thanks to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) and my special thanks go to the National Council of Union of Burma (NCUB), a leading democratic organization of Burma for assigning me to study about the European Parliament's functions. The internship at the European Parliament (EP) for the people of third world countries is a very valuable experience because we have many things to learn on rule of law, policy-making, policy-implementing and policy-evaluation process, electorate systems, EU constitution, federalism, agenda-setting, hearings, First-Reading, the plenary sessions, daily-parliamentarian tasks, transparency, accountability, good governance and team-work. The internship with the EP provided me huge valuable knowledge on democracy, diplomacy, economics and political theories and humanity. Although the EP is a mixture of supranational power and intergovernmental structure, it has an independent policy formulation process. No one can deny that the EP is one of the transnational democratic institutions and one of the global key players in present globalization age. First, I have selected to work on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the Alliance for Liberals and Democrats for Europe. My internship and daily task were supervised by Ms. Descamps Ricci Delphine, a policy advisor of the ALDE' Econ committee, Ms. Terazi, a policy advisor of the ALDE 's Econ committee and Mr. Poenaru Titus, a policy advisor of the ALDE ' Econ committee and Ms. Marcia Kammitsi, an assistant of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the ALDE. All of them are experts having interpersonal skills and guided me to gather knowledge and the use of time management. Secondly, the internship made us independent. We gathered facts and figures about the subject we are interested in and had acute observations concerning the activities of the EP. We are free to observe and learn, as there is no specific limitation and restrictions for us to choose on the committees, agendas and political issues. However, I personally feel that the internship period is very short as I really enjoy my time here and I think I would gain much more should I be given more time to do this valuable internship. I also joined Ms. Marcia to attend some meetings of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the ALDE group in Brussels and Strasbourg. The ALDE group is the third largest political group in the EP. I also had to attend some urgency meetings, expert hearings, ALDE group meetings, the plenary sessions of both the committee of the Econ and Foreign Affairs. Finally, the internship at ALDE and the EP contributes to an understanding of the role of liberty, democracy, individuality and responsibility in the global arena. Particularly, as a liberal and democrat internship at the ALDE in the EP have gained knowledge of liberalism, Adam Smith's Laissez-faire economic theory, small-government and internationalism. Moreover, I received some basic wisdom of the European Institution such as the European Parliament, the Commission, the Council, Schuman' philosophy of the Europe and the role of European institutions in present age.
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