As a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), you will have to collaborate with your party and at the same time support your national interests. However, it is up to you to decide how big your support is and how it will affect your relationship with the rest of your political group. You will need to work as a team if you want that your proposals will be effective in Parliament.
During the plenary, you will have to show all your public speaking skills and try to impress your colleagues from other parties. In this way, they will see you as a point of reference for a future coalition.
Since the EWEI staff will assign the roles, it may happen that you will represent a party whose ideas you entirely disagree with. However, try to use this occasion to understand a different point of view from your own and it may be even more interesting to put in the shoes of someone so different from you for three days.
If you will represent the biggest or the smallest party in the Parliament you will have some pros and cons. It is true that if you are inside the EPP your political group will have a major relevance during the discussions. However, you will have to collaborate and convince more people from your party and it may be hard to find a common strategy. The opposite happens if you are inside, for example, the GUE/NGL. Here you will not be able to let all your proposals pass, so you will have to choose carefully the strategy you want to pursue if you want to make a mark during the debates.
