| Yale Model Government Europe | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | YMGE |
| Formation | 2010 |
| Type | Model United Nations Student organization |
| Purpose/focus | International politics and International relations |
| Location | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
| Official languages | English |
| Co-President | Michael Zucker (CC '12) |
| Co-President | Georgios Stasinopoulos (CC '12) |
| Main organ | Executive Board |
| Affiliations | Yale International Relations Association |
| Website | http://www.ymge.org |
Yale Undergraduate Model Government Association, Inc. (YUMGA) is a registered student organization at Yale University that was founded in 2010 in order to undertake the organization of Yale Model Government conferences for high school students in Europe and around the world. The inaugural conference, Yale Model Government Europe (YMGE) 2011, will take place in November 2011. The conference staffed by Yale University undergraduate students will be hosted in Prague, Czech Republic.
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YMGE was created in effort to reimagine the Model United Nations conference in a way that would be both more educational and more dynamic for the delegates. It combines the best of American and European conferences to create a hybrid format. The conference comprises two types of sessions. In standard committee debate, delegates will be placed in a parliament, European government, or supranational body to discuss important issues pertaining to the future of Europe and the international community. In crisis sessions, all committees will have to table their individual debates to come together and solve an issue that threatens the integrity of the international system and European integration.
The conference will emulate the proceedings of the European Union and its nations constituent parliaments and ministries. Amongst the twenty committees that will be simulated at the conference, there will be five are parliaments: European, British, French, German, and the United States Senate. Five specialized committees will also be simulated, and will target hotspots in global affairs with a European bent, including Kosovo, climate change, and cyber security. The final ten committees are a sampling of national cabinets from across the European Union: the nine most populous members and the Czech Republic.
As in the real world, these committees form the framework of an integrated Europe: when something happens in the world that affects one committee, it affects all committees. Every committee will be kept abreast of developments in each of the others; if a new policy passed by the Belgian cabinet has repercussions in Denmark, it will be up to the Danish ministers to react.