I Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety – Committee President Judith Papenfuss

The question of a new climate economy

Examine the possibilities and consequences of gradually changing an old-fashioned fossil energy structure in favour of investment in cleantech and a Green Industrial Revolution. What are the advantages/disadvantages? Do we have to change our lifestyles and everyday life to adjust to new environmental conditions?

http://www.bdforum.org/show/english/news/energy_climate.aspx

II Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (1) – Committee President Bartosz Lada

The question of how to fight extremist attitudes and radicalization among young people

Examine in what ways you can take steps to prevent and deal with escalating violence in e.g. politics and religion in our societies. In your debate you should include the question of how to protect the rights of minorities.

http://www.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/external/content/1/c4/25/58/v1195659710/user/Young%20People%20and%20Extremism%20Report.pdf

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/global_campaign/en/youthviolencefacts.pdf

III Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2) – Committee President Sofie Jürs

The question of human trafficking and violence against women

How can you address and combat human trafficking of women in our societies. What factors do you think lie behind this trafficking and violence against women in general.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Trafficking_in_Persons_in_Europe_09.pdf

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html

IV Committee on Culture and Education – Committee President Austrian delegate

The question of the role of media in the information society

How can you support the advantages, and hinder the disadvantages, that come with young people´s increasing use of the internet and modern communication technologies to access information and for recreational purposes? How can democracy be improved at a time when young people increasingly ignore traditional media in favour of new media technologies?

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN020000.pdf

V Committee on Constitutional Affairs – Committee President Victor Louis Otto Hansen

The question of nationalism versus transnationalism

What can be done to prevent EU member states from reverting to national interests rather than furthering the success of the Union? In spite of the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, in some member states there is an increasing scepticism about the EU and its bureaucracy. How might the EU deal with this problem?

http://euobserver.com/9/31240