ENVI II Edition
KUOPIOPOLITAN
Breaking the Ice on
the Baltic Sea
Music and lies forms the
Committee committed to
the Baltic Sea.
When meeting new people, you can
easily become shy. When meeting
someone who is going to be your leader
and your guide for the next couple of
days, you can become extremely shy.
Especially if that someone does not al-
low you to speak at all during the first
couple of minutes of your acquaint-
ance, like ENVI II’s Chair Jan did.
Not knowing whether to laugh or to be
scared, the members of the Committee
on Environment, Public Health and
Food Safety II remained in an uncom-
fortable silence and introduced them-
selves. When they realised they had
nothing to be afraid of, they relaxed
and started forming a team accompa-
nied by Regina Spektor, The Killers and Rules. I was impressed by their com-
Jason Mraz. mitment to the debate and their respect
for each other’s opinions.
Teambuilding was something that none
of them had experienced before, so it Why am I not scared of them failing
was quite an interesting encounter for during the GA? I think of them as a
all of them. After some stretching with time bomb – quiet and calm now, but
S.P.U.D., we got to know something explosive and energetic later. I have no
about each other, strangely by lying doubts that their resolution will be a
to one another. So now we know that success and that both Mommy Jour-
amongst us we have a policeman-to-be, no and Daddy Chair will be proud of
a couple of musicians (hence the music them. After all – we are the Committee
background) and a polyglot. Chicken on Awesomeness.
Pilot was the good energiser ENVI II Sara Juricic
needed – a perfect choice that made
everyone laugh until they cried.
Calling it hard but interesting, my
fierce and fabulous delegates started to
talk about the Baltic Sea and think of
the different ways of how to rejuvenate
it. The one thing that surprised me was
the fact that they had only five Golden
ENVIRONMENT
Saving the Baltic
Pumping our future down
the drain: how can the Bal-
tic Sea countries work to-
wards rejuvenating “their”
Ocean whilst maintaining
its economic capacity?
It is commonly known that our nature
is essential for our survival. Unfortu-
The Jan Spirit
Jan Bubienczyk – an inno-
vator with a passion.
A lot of us follow the standardised
Delegate-Journo-Chair path when at-
tending sessions of the European Youth
Parliament. This does, however, not
apply to Jan Bubienczyk, the Chair of
the Committee on Environment, Pub-
lic Health and Food Safety II a.k.a. the
Committee on Awesomeness. When
asked about the reasons for this, he an-
swers with a simple explanation – in his
opinion, being a Journalist is individual
fun, whereas being a Chair lets him ap-
ply everything that he has learned in
real life.
Fierce and fabulous, he is a very stub-
born person. He expects a lot from you
and he does not accept failure. Still, this
nately, the term ‘pollution’ is often used
when discussing nature and just as of-
ten when talking about the Baltic Sea.
Why is this?
The Baltic Sea is almost completely sur-
rounded with land, which makes more
vulnerable to pollution than other ma-
rine areas. It is possible to say that the
Baltic Sea is a proper ‘nutrient soup’ – it
causes the growth of seaweed as well as
anaerobic bacteria. Due to the industri-
al waste that floods to the sea every day,
did not stop him from being nervous
and excited before chairing for the first
time. Thanks to the relaxed atmosphere
between the Committee members of
ENVI II, his anxiety soon disappeared.
With chairing being a great passion of
his, it is one of the things that he enjoys
the most. Consistent and diligent when
it comes to work, but calm and kind
when it comes to his Delegates, the
members of ENVI II describe him as
an innovative and inspiring individual
with a great will to show, explain and
teach.
Knowing Jan for some time now, I have
to say I have no doubts about him or
his skills. ENVI II, the Committee on
Awesomeness, should consider them-
selves very lucky for having him as their
Chair.
Sara Juricic
the bottom fauna has been heavily af-
fected and will soon be ruined. Already,
half of the fish species are below the
critical biological level. The question
is what the European Union can do
to prevent the ‘death’ of the Baltic Sea
and meanwhile maintain its economic
capacity. The Committee on Environ-
ment, Public Health and Food Safety
II, led by Jan Bubienczyk is here to dis-
cuss and find a solution to this difficult
yet interesting problem.
Sara Juricic
The Kuopio’10 Press team
Journalists
Anni Marttinen
Anna Westerlund
Eoin O’Leary
Katarina Warg
Kati Pärn
Nikolas Rawlins
Sara Juricic
Editors
Elsa Horn af Rantzien
Konrad Staeger