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Email Duffield Derbyshire.co.uk www.duffieldderbyshire.co.uk S U G G E S T I O N S  F O R  A C T I O N STAY IN TOUCH Send me your email address so I can keep you informed. My email is bill.newtondunn@europarl.europa.eu If you have a change of address, please let me know. WATCH THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AT WORK MEPs hold their committee meetings and their full-scale debates in public.You can watch from home "on-line" by googling EuroParlTV or by going to the following website http://www.europarltv.europa.eu/StartPage.aspx VISIT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE CITY OF BRUSSELS You can visit the parliament on your own or with others.There is no need to book in advance unless you bring a large group. Check in advance whether the parliament will be meeting in Brussels or Strasbourg on your proposed date, and whether I will be there to welcome you. Mrs Julie Hirst organises groups for me to come to Brussels.Tell her that you might be interested to join a bus group by emailing her at julie_hirst2000@yahoo.co.uk If you want to bring a large group yourself, plenty of advance notice is required by the parliament because large numbers of visitors arrive every day from all over Europe. Brussels has plenty of good museums, as well as the site of the Battle of Waterloo. JOIN THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTY Our policies on-line at http://www.libdems.org.uk/ The text of the agreement for the Coalition between the Lib Dems and the Tories is at http://www.libdems.org.uk/latest_news_detail.aspx?title=Conservative_Liberal_Democrat_coalition_agreements&pPK=2697bcdc-7483-47a7- a517-7778979458ff If you like what we stand for, then please join us or make a donation.The recommended rate is £45 per year, but concessions are available.You can join by writing to our headquarters at 8-10 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AE (telephone 020 7222 7999). Or join on-line at https://www.libdems.org.uk/support/join.html STUDY IN THE REST OF EUROPE Three useful schemes are : - ERASMUS for higher education students to study for part of their degree in another European country. - LEONARDO DA VINCI for people to travel to other parts of Europe for vocational education and training. - GRUNTVIG for personal development. It funds adults who are not in higher education to visit other European countries for training, job shadowing, or work placement. Further information at http://www.scholarshipportal.eu/ or http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.HTML or http://ec.europa.eu/education/study-in-europe/index_en.html FOR TRAINEESHIPS AT THE PARLIAMENT OR THE COMMISSION Parliament europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/staticDisplay.do?id=147 Commission ec.europa.eu/stages/index_en.htm SEARCH FOR A JOB IN BRUSSELS OR IN POLITICS - try www.euro-jobbing.com/ or http://Europa.eu/epso/ or www.eu-jobsite.com or www.w4mpjobs.org/ FOR ACCURATE REPORTING ABOUT EUROPE There are only three sources which are reliable and accurate : - the daily Financial Times newspaper - the weekly EuroVoice newspaper (also at www.eurovoice.com) which is published by The Economist - a good daily report at http://eurobserver.com/ WEBSITES WHICH MIGHT BE USEFUL - my personal page on the European Parliament's website is http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?country=GB&partNumber=1&zone=East+Midlands&language=EN&id=1394 - the European Parliament main website http://www.europarl.ep.ec/ - the Commission website http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm - the Council of Ministers website http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ - the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg http://europa.eu/institutions/inst/justice/ - the European Court ion Human Rights in Strasbourg (which is not part of the EU) http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/Basic+Texts/The+Convention+and+additional+protocols/The+European+Convention+on +Human+Rights/ - get Solvit to help solve your EU problem http://ec.europa.eu/solvit/site/index_en.htm  Printed b y Oasis Printing, and published b y Bill Newton Dunn MEP © duffieldderbyshire.co.uk - 2012