Being right by the sea side, it is only natural to have a “Wave” Media Team, composed of seven hard-working, passionate journalists and their editor. Although we are unable to swim in the Black Sea due to the capricious weather, we definitely hope that the delegates attending TOMIΣ Forum are enjoying this session’s Wave and all the inherent activities, which were designed and are conducted exclusively for them.

Committee on Foreign Affairsby Mara Bălașa

The European Union - not as we know it

Think of the European Union as if it were a family, composed of no less than 28 children. Six of them were in the beginning, but then more and more started get-ting adopted, thus becoming what it is today - a rather unique, fantastic structure. As in each and every fami-ly, misunderstandings occur on a daily basis: someone is spending too much money, someone keeps forget-ting to pay the bills and so on and so forth. However, the family keeps growing and developing itself and it is only natural that, due to this enlargement process, challenges rise proportionally.

Imagine a parent having to terminate the parental rights, imagine the shock this would create, the im-balance. This could be easily associated to a Member State leaving the EU. Until now, people would only talk about their wish to join this union, about ways

to fulfil the criteria and no one has ever thought that people would start taking leaving into account.

Besides a chain reaction, a Brexit movement would trigger countless consequences and create precedent. After being this close to a Grexit, the EU is current-ly recovering from what could be easily called an in-ternal crisis, the level of trust in this structure among citizens is critically low and the immigrant situation is not making things better. In this context, the Euro-pean Parliament would have to thoroughly think of a plan to maintain the relations with a possible former EU member.

There are many sides to this subject and life as we know it could easily change, should Great Britain leave this one big not so happy family.

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Develop-ment

by Cătălina Drăgoi

Over half of the food within the EU food supply chain never makes it on to a plate. That equals to 89 million tonnes a year, or 179 kg per capita. As you can imag-ine, this has serious implications in various fields, such as the economy, environment, and also in the society.

First of all, I'd like you to imagine what it would be like to reverse the process of going grocery shop-ping. Instead of exchanging money for food, you'd raid the fridge, take whatever you don't like and turn it into money. What would you do with it? I bet you wouldn't throw it away. Unfortunately, however, the latter scenario is possible only with some pre-plan-ning. That is, next time you go shopping, remember to buy only what you know you'll eat, otherwise you're going to end up spending up to ₤400 extra on food you won't even touch.

Feed the waste or feed the hungry?

Second, as I've always thought, I think we should re-member to be humans before everything else. Did you know that only the bread that the Britons waste every year could feed 30 million malnourished peo-ple? Just imagine what the numbers add up to when considering every country in the world and every food category.

Last but not least, it's important to bear in mind the effects that food wastage has on the environment. If 'Food Waste' were a country, it would be the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gas, after the US and China. Although the main culprit here is the pro-ducer, the possibilities of what you, as a consumer, can do about it are endless. This includes freezing, stor-ing food appropriately, using up leftovers (or turning it into compost), and so many others measures that won't take longer than 5 minutes, but which will help both you and the world you live in.

Committee on Culture and Educationby Cristian Nancu

There’s no doubt that everyone knows how the les-bian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community faces harassment, abuse and discrimina-tion every day, worldwide. Due to different prejudices and misconceptions about the LGBTQ people, each generation grows up with an intolerant and misjudged mentality towards them.

Although the society is rapidly evolving nowadays, it still faces difficulties eliminating the current stigma the LGBT community experiences.

The unfair interaction between the LGBT members and the heterosexuals can unfortunately be some-times characterized as rather aggressive.

It starts from verbal abuse, reaches employment and housing discrimination, and shockingly hate crimes.What makes it so harsh is that this conflict is based on the mentality and attitude of individuals.

The solution might be so obviously simple–theoret-ically–: let the LGBT community have it their way. However, people’s pride has been dominating their their existence for far too long, which is why their views cannot be changed at the drop of a hat.

We can only hope that the younger generations will take this matter into their hands and solve it efficient-ly, the way that our actual politicians seem they can-not.

Committee on Developmentby Răzvan Certezeanu

Recent surveys in the past few years have revealed a lack of awareness from the European citizens regard-ing EU’s global actions. The Millennium Develop-ment Goals and the distribution of European Aid, for example, are still unknown to the majority.

On the other hand, even though this clearly represents a reason for concern, based on the same surveys, the Europeans show great interest in providing support to people in developing countries and also consider that global involvement should be one of the European Union’s main priorities.

As a response to these aspects, EU concluded that it is high-time that the political agenda had development on its top priority list, while also bringing it closer to the citizens. In order to accomplish this, 2015 was des-ignated the European Year for Development, the first European year to deal with Europe’s role in the world.

Needless to say, it is vital that the actions taken by the European Union this year not only have a greater im-pact on global scale, but also bring Europeans closer to the topic and inspire them to get involved as much

as possible. Having this said, we are fortunate enough to have the Committee on Development (DEVE), a team of 14 young and enthusiastic Europeans, work-ing on this during the Tomis Forum 2015. I am per-sonally eager to witness their teamwork and hear their

fresh ideas, since their motivation also lies within this year’s motto: “it is our world, our dignity, our future”.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...Or maybe not so long time ago and in a pretty close galaxy to the European Union, there was a little coun-try called Romania, and like any other country, Ro-mania had a prime-minister and his name was Vic-tor Ponta, or as even the national press named him, Monta.

Since he was the prime-minister of his country, he was also responsible for some magical stuff that includes money. We shall call this stuff ”finances”.

A few years back, when Ponta was not prime-min-ister yet, a big scary monster called financial crisis wanted to destroy Romania’s finances, so the former prime-minister had to make some changes that hurt Romania’s purchasing power by increasing the VAT.

Mr. Ponta decided to finally decrease the VAT on food products. However, this didn’t help the finances recov-er as he expected and it actually hurt them even more.Right now, the Romanian prime-minister decided to apply another strategy so that he can aid his little

buddy finances to recover. He decided to reduce the VAT again, to all the products this time, from 24% to a mere 20%. Will this help the finances recover? We shall wait and see.

We don’t know what to expect from the future, but we all hope that those measures will have a positive out-come, especially when this problem will be tackled by the committee of ECON, chaired by Antohi Razvan and his fearless warriors. #prayforfinances

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairsby Andrei Copăcianu

Committee on Environment and Public Healthby Emma Cauwelaers

We all live in a society where we need to work hard, have a perfect family, have many friends and be suc-cessful. But sometimes we can’t handle this race to perfection. The numbers of people with depression, burn –outs and other mental disorders are raising ev-ery day. This sometimes even leading to suicide.

Having a mental health disorder is in many countries still a Taboo. Many people don’t get the fact that having a mental disorder affects the ability to properly work. Sometimes, people are not even able to go to work any-more. When you reach that point, people surrounding will just see this as an easy way to stop working. This is just one of the many stereotypes about mental health issues.

Youngsters are most likely to develop one and I’m one of them. While writing this, I will be 8 years suffer-ing from a depression so I can definitely relate to this

topic. I’m sure that there are many youngsters over there who wanted to go to university or college but were not able because they were mentally totally not okay. It’s very said the governments of many coun-tries don’t care about this problem. Since Europe is still in an economic crisis, it’s important to get healthy

employers. I mean, otherwise you get this circle where youngsters drop-out of school, don’t want to work and the economy lies still. It’s also im-portant to keep the suicide rates low. Since this number is also increasing daily while people have the right to

live and be happy.

For me this is an issue that is very close and very real. And unfortunately not many countries take these things seriously and do not really care about the men-tal state of their people even though they are the fu-ture of their country.

Yes, we are all mad!

Committee on International Trade by Gabriel Popa

What’s the best you can get when you’re living your life behind the bars? Sometimes, the quality of your life is highly dependent on whether you are a fighter, a deceiver or a gambling mastermind. We’re follow-ing the example of our fellow felons on „Orange Is The New Black”, where we’re dealing with difficult to handle markets in our own respective realms – with-in four walls or on a big, scary Earth. The common truth be-ing that we’re being dragged into what appears to be a trade-facilitated swirl that is exemplified here with the best of both worlds. If you’re not familiar with the idea of marketing inside correctional institutions, you might be (unsurprisingly) struck by the day-to-day con-cept that’s taking over both us and them : the matter of who wins and who loses. As an inmate, you are offered the modest possibility of acquiring limited goods, for a certain price. However, as we’ve seen our favourite characters experience, the local prison supplies do not always satisfy the needs of many, and so appears the desire for more. Here is where the consumer demand comes into play. As people start looking into import-

ing goods from the outside, they make the local sup-plies lose value in favor of the outside, rather exotic ones and thus creating a free trade process.

On the other hand, as we all know, restrictions are very common in prisons. Therefore, some of these imports might be prohibited or slowed down, much

like trade barriers. Happy with the results of these actions, local suppliers gain in value for their products once again, limiting the inmates’ array of products and forcing them to buy the unsatisfactory domes-tic goods, creating an institu-tional profit, not used by the consumers themselves. This situation has the equivalent of protectionism in our daily trade.

Of course, as prisoners, we would prefer to have our products varied and cheap through free trade. To our own benefit, as citizens, too, the consequences of trade barriers seem terrifying and quite a taboo subject. But this is only the root of our way to an escape in think-ing with the bars behind us.

Orange Is The New Trade

My friend from elementary school was a Roma girl. Her dark skin colour and the fact that her beliefs and traditions were different than mine didn't represent an impediment for me to be her friend. Although she was beautiful and smart, her origin might have seemed like an obstacle for her , as people would always judge her. She was supposed to marry in her early age, to raise kids and to be a good housewife. Her future life was destined, with no possibility for her to change it.

Roma people supposedly come from Northern In-dia. They arrived in Mid-West Asia and then Europe about 1,000 years ago. Throughout history, they were marked for extermination and sentenced to forced labor and imprisonment. They were labeled in many countries as a socially degraded stratum which result-ed in persecution and often violent, with efforts to achieve ethnic cleansing until the modern era.

Later in the 19th century, Romani immigration was forbidden on a racial basis in areas outside Europe, mostly in the English-speaking world.

The perception of Roma people throughout their history, not only in Europe but in the whole world, is mainly caused by the fact that this nomadic nation

has never had its autonomous state.

Furthermore, in the modern era their different way of life is misunderstood thus leading to their discrimi-nation in society. From my point of view, the solution to this problem needs to be comprehensive approach on a pan-European level that would include all of the various and complex aspects of this topic.

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

by Milena Šmigić

A fixed value in every EYP-session is the Village and I’ve only been to one session were there was no such thing. Although I’ve attended six EYP villages in total, I need to say that this one was extraordinary and here is why:

Firstly, I was really impressed by the fact that every Romanian region was greatly represented. I did not know that the food was a bit different from region to region. Another not common phenomena on nor-mal euro villages was the presentation of the different country afterwards with the traditional dances, fun-ny speeches and interesting information about their country or region.

Of course there were still some very common and fa-miliar values as well.

The Netherlands had like always a ‘sweets-table’ with speculaas, drop and stroopwafels. The German table was the ideal combination of sweets, e.a. Haribo can-dy, and salty pretzels. The Swedish people had their meatballs. And, of course, the Swiss table was there with their delicious chocolate and cheese.

I need to say that I really loved to see another kind of EYP Village. This one was some something special and one of a kind!

Eyp- Village, Meeting Other Culturesby Emma Cauwelaers

When the only light you see is reflected by the masses of white garments, when your eyes hurt from the un-bearable brightness, when you don't really care any-more because you're dancing to your favourite song, you know for sure that you're at the one event you've been expecting so eagerly - the White Party.

For one night, there was no distinction between delegates and officials, be-tween Romanians and foreigners, be-tween younger and older. The theme simply reduced ev-erybody to a white mass flocking its way to the beach bar.

As we approached the venue, the vol-ume turned up, and

so did the excitement. Although it usually takes a while for a party to kick off, this wasn't the case during ours. The fresh rythm of the music and the seam-lessly mixed drinks were the only catalysers needed

for an unforgetta-ble night to com-mence instantly.

Although rather short, the party was one to remem-ber: everybody en-joyed singing and dancing to both international and traditional music, meeting new peo-ple, forming last-ing friendships, and allowing their worries to be washed away by the sandy wind.

A Night To Rememberby Cătălina Drăgoi

Let me hear you!

If there is a thing that most of the people adore, this is music and as far as I know, EYP-ers totally enjoy it. Last night, both the officials and the delegates had a lot of fun while witnessing some quality performanc-es, by some incredibly cool delegates and even two members of the officials’ team, who also happened to have a great amount of talent.

The hosts of the concert were Anamaria Olaru and Alexandru Pasata. As expected, they made a great team together and they surely knew how to make the audience enjoy the music played. They kept a short introduction speech and the concert started with an amazing piano performance played by a very talented delegate. Furthermore, during his performance peo-ple raised up their hands and there were lighters up in the air.

As we all know, EYP takes a great pride in diversity, and this was not an exception. Sometimes, when a concert begins with a piano, you usually expect it to only contain classical music, but our guest from

Ukraine had another opinion. She basically impressed the whole audience with an amazing performance of “Make Me Wanna Die” by The Pretty Reckless.

The concert ended with the audience being in a great mood, after they listened to such a good music, and I can confirm that this was one of the best EYP con-certs I’ve been to recently. The delegates and the of-ficials were set in a very great mood for their trip to Constanta in the following day.

TOMIS Concertby Andrei Copăcianu

As Maya Angelou stated in Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, “each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solu-tions searched for.” After an intense day of committee work, during which the delegates worked together to prepare their resolution, everyone took a break and departed on Thursday for Constanta and Mamaia.

Once they arrived in the Old City and witnessed the beautiful and windy port, the officials livened up the atmosphere with two energisers in the Town Hall park.

Afterwards, the first group of delegates visited the re-nowned History Museum, where they had the chance to see the Glycon, the city’s symbol. Following this,

the group entered and admired the Grand Mosque of Constanta, and went on to see the famed Casino.

Meanwhile, a second group took another course, and entered the Dolphinarium. Inside, they were enter-tained by a breathtaking display of dolphin jumps and swirls.

Last but not least, the ones who chose Mamaia as their destination, even though the weather was not in their favour, managed to recharge their batteries and returned back to the hotel fresh and renewed. All in all, the day had a positive effect on both officials and delegates, while allowing them to relax.

A Good Day to Restby Răzvan Certezeanu