2002

The motto "Switzerland: social and safe?" was apparently not only very interesting for the young people: A total of three members of the Federal Council were present at the eleventh Youth Session. Samuel Schmid opened the session, Joseph Deiss visited a working group and Ruth Dreifuss gave a speech during Saturday's plenary session. In 2002, the concept of "JuSe direct" was tested for the first time: a member of the parliament accompanies a working group throughout the session and works out a concrete proposal together with experienced youth parliamentarians of all political persuasions. This will then be submitted by the member of parliament to the federal councils as a motion or postulate. The first "JuSe direct" was already a success: Jacqueline Fehr (SP, ZH) submitted a motion with the young people's demand for a "competence center to combat Internet crime, especially child pornography" within the framework of the relevant UN bodies, which was adopted in 2003.Not only the young people, but also Eros plays politics from time to time: the SNYC is aware of several relationships whose origins can be found at a youth session. In at least one case, the two are now married and have a young daughter. At the "politicians' aperitif" in the Café Fédéral, cell phone numbers were obviously exchanged as well as content...