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The Model European Communities Programme (MECP) is a yearly political simulation organised by the European Schools. Selected students from each of the 12 schools take on roles as politicians from the 27 member states of the EU, and take part in a 3-day run of council and plenary sessions. It is divided into MEC (Model European Council) and MEP (Model European Parliament). ==MEC== MEC started with two teachers, Mr James Campbell (European School of Culham) and Mr Michael Farrar (European School of Brussels I – Uccle). Each of the 13 European Schools sends one or more delegations of students to the MEC, each of which represents one of the EU's member states. The country represented has nothing to do with the location of the school; for example, the Luxembourg delegation may represent Italy, France or Malta, while Luxembourg itself may be "played" by students from Varese. Students of all nationalities make up the respective delegations. Each delegation has its representative for each of the councils, e.g. Head of State, Economics and Finance, etc. The number of councils has usually been eight; however, due to the accession of 10 new members states in 2004, the MEC will only contain 5 councils, each attended by 27 national representatives. Additionally, the European Commission is represented in the simulation, as in real life. Two schools, Luxembourg and Culham (UK), also provide a team of journalists. Each school produces several issues of a newspaper (often competing to some extent) reporting on the Councils, which are distributed around all the delegates. These papers are edited by one or two of the students. Their names are usually a play on words, such as "EUtopia" or "Eurostar". The journalists address the issues and events of the councils from a variety of angles. At Alicante in 2008, the European School of Mol provided their video team, (VCMol ), for Press Coverage and Daily News Reports. These included exclusive interviews with numerous delegates, and news from throughout the day. This provided the politicians with the additional experience of live coverage. Much of the organising of this new feature was handled by Mr. D. Roe and Mr. Mark Hersch The MEC 2010 will again be held in facilities provided by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market in Alicante. MEC 2011 was in Varese, while MEC 2012 was held in Munich. The councils discuss and amend proposals put forward before the MEC by the Presidency (the member state which is presiding over the Council at the time) and the Commission. These are then symbolically put together and signed at the end of the MEC by the heads of state. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Model European Communities Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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