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🎄International Relations Research Student Associationwishes you happy and warm Christmas holidays!

We wish you to be very healthy, happy, full of love and surrounded by your friends and relatives!

May our souls be accompanied by the satisfaction and hope of Christmas Eve and let us all be more humble and good! ✨ 

An event with guest speaker Marian Karagyozov on the topic: "Turkey - the eternal candidate for EU membership" was held on December 20 in the online platform Zoom.

🌐 Yoana Stamboliyska, the current Chairwoman of the International Relations Research Student Association (IRRSA), briefly opened and welcomed the guests.

Our guest speaker also had the floor for a few introductory remarks, followed by a presentation on the topic. During his presentation, Marian touched on extremely important topics and periods in the development of the Republic of Turkey, which have factored and continue to factor a key importance for the relationship between Turkey and the European Union.

🔍 At the end, there was time for questions, as interesting and curious ones were asked, which resulted in a good discussion with the participants.

A conference on “Digital Transformation and Democracy” was held on December 15 in the online platform Zoom.

The event was jointly organized by the Sofia Security Forum, Konrad Adenauer Club Bulgaria and the University of Bitola, Republic of Northern Macedonia.

The moderators of the event were YoanaStamboliyska - the current Chairwoman of the International Relations Research Student Association (IRRSA) and Lela Radulovic - representative of the Faculty of Security at the University of Bitola.

The conference was opened with a few introductory remarks by Mr. Yordan Bozhilov - President of the Sofia Security Forum, Mr. Thorsten Geisler - Director of the Bulgarian Directorate of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Mr. Nikola Dujovski - Dean of the Faculty of Security at Bitola University.

The participants were students from both countries, and IRRSA had a representative in the face of Veselin Tashev - current Chairman of the Control Board of the Association. He presented a report on "Digital Democracy: Opportunities and Challenges for young people in Bulgaria?".

The event concluded with a discussion on various topicslike security, journalism, education and development of countries in the digital age.

The International Relations Research Student Association (IRRSA)is pleased to invite you to an online meeting-discussion on "Turkey - the eternal candidate for EU membership", which will be held on 20.12.21 at 17:30.

The guest speaker of the event will be Marian Karagyozov, who graduated Law at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and "Oriental Studies" with Turkish at the New Bulgarian University. He is an author of a monograph on the new Turkish foreign policy and former correspondent of the Bulgarian National Radio in Istanbul (2017 - 2020). He is currently the editor-in-chief of the UNA News website and works at the Institute of Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

📌 During the public lecture extremely interesting topics will be discussed such as:

➡️ What does Turkey have to do in order to join the EU? Is it possible that this will happen in the near future?

➡️ If Turkey joins the European Union, will it affect Bulgaria?

📍 You can find a link to the event here:

https://fb.me/e/3s4rZObkc

The General Assembly of the National Youth Forum was held on December 11 and 12.

During the two days, important topics concerning the Forum and its member organizations were discussed.

On the second day of the event the voting of the new Management Board and the Control Commission took place. Miroslav Tsekov was elected as the National Youth Forum’s new chairman.

We are pleased to announce that Gergana Geranova, as a representative of IRRSA, was elected as a member of the Management Board.

During her tenure at the National Youth Forum, Gery will work in the field of "International Cooperation".

On behalf of the whole team, we wish her a successful mandate and good luck!

We're glad you're on our team, Gery! ❤️

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This past weekend, together with our partners and friends from the United Nations Association of Bulgaria, we held the student “Model UN: The Crisis in Afghanistan. Active dialogue or political stagnation."

The event was held via Zoom on both days - the 20th and 21st of November 2021.

At the beginning of the first day, the model was opened by Yoana Stamboliyska - the current chairman of IRRSA, and Ralitsa Dikanska - youth delegate for Bulgaria for 2017-2018 and the chairman of the "Bulgarian Youth Delegates to the UN" program.

Moderators of the event were Yoana Stamboliyska and Martin Stoyanov, who has extensive experience in conducting the UN Model and is currently part of the “Konrad Adenauer” Foundation.

During both days the participants prepared an agenda and debated on individual topics, and by the end of the second day they prepared a draft resolution on the problem in Afghanistan.

There was a very good and fruitful debate and each country managed to compromise and unite everyone around a common resolution, which was adopted.

"Why vote when nothing will change?", "There is no one to vote for!", "They are all similar, what's the point?".

These are all questions we hear before every election, be they parliamentary or presidential.

BUT is it really so? Do you sincerely believe that it makes no sense? That it is not up to you? That it does not depend on us?

✅ To give our vote means to think not only about our own future, but also about the future of all our loved ones, of those who do not yet possess the right to vote, of those who have given their vote but can no longer reach the polling station;

✅ To give our vote means to choose how we want to live;

✅ To give our vote means to be able to exercise the power to choose how we want our future to go, but not to use it.

Let us be responsible for our future so that we can hold accountable those we have chosen!

Let's inform ourselves - it's easy! 

IRRSA together with the United Nations Association of Bulgaria, invites you to join the UN Student Model "The Crisis in Afghanistan: Active Dialogue or Political Stagnation".

The event will be held via Zoom in a two-day format on the 20th and 21st of November 2021.

To apply, fill in the form by November 12, 2021:

https://forms.gle/t3qEm3EivbofqEMs7

More about the event can be found at the following link:

https://fb.me/e/1L8e92NcS