After most of the participants had arrived at the hotel on August 24, the group was addressed by Mr Valeriu Ghiletchi, former MP and Bishop of the Baptist Union. The next day we visited the parliament building, where we met with Iurie Rosca, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament. Rosca gave us an introduction to Moldovan politics and the role of the Christian Democrats therein. We learned for example that Moldova has a unicameral parliament. We left parliament for a short sight seeing and in the afternoon Veaceslav Ionita, leading Moldovan economist, gave a short analysis of Moldova and its East-European neighbours'economic compatibility with the EU standards, Russia's energy policy and its impact on the region's European perspective. During the coffee break some quick adjustments to the programme were made to allow for some more discussion of the issue of unilateral secession and territorial integrity in light of the recent developments in Georgia. Vladimir Plamadeala, graduate student of International Law and International Policy Advisor to the Moldovan Christian Democrats, gave his presentation about the issue of ethnic minorities, unilateral secession and territorial integrity and Leo van Doesburg, ECPM Representative in South Eastern-Europe led the discussion.
Some Georgians of the Youth Christian Democratic Movement (CDM) were also supposed to be present at the summer school, but because of the war they were not able to attend. There were some Russians present though and this made the discussion even more interesting.
In the evening Vlad Cubreacov MP, former director of the Department of Cults, member of PACE, spoke about the relation between Christianity and politics in Moldova and Eastern-Europe in general, followed by a Questions and Answers session, after which we had a very nice dinner and enjoyed the sauna.
Tuesday we had an excursion to Orheiul Vechi, to see the Roman vestiges and the cliff monastery, where monks lived as hermits in caves. We also went to Saharna, an ancient historic site on the Nistru river with caves and waterfalls and a Greek monastery. Those who were up to it, climbed to the highest point of the mountains, where we prayed together for reconciliation between peoples in conflict, be they Bosnians, Serbs, Albanians, Moldovans, Russians, Georgians et cetera and together we prayed the Lord's prayer in our own language. In the evening we had a barbecue on the bank of the river Nistru, with a view of Transnistria, by the romantic light of our cell phones.
After a day of getting to know each other better by this informal excursion, we had a full day of workshops again on Wednesday. Dick van Dijk, board member of ECPM and auditor for the Directorate General for Regional Policy of the European Commission spoke about the aftermatch of Romania and Bulgaria joining the EU, problems and lessons to be drawn. In his presentation he also reminded us of all the different kinds of association that can preceed EU accession or be offered in stead of the prospect of EU membership. At the end of his workshop Van Dijk put us to work, by giving us a list of all the countries that are in the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) and challenging us to give arguments why certain countries as different as Serbia and Kazakhstan should or should not join the EU, whether we expect them to in the near future and if not what prospects for cooperation we do see. After the coffee break Razvan Burleanu, who works for the Senate of the Parliament of Romania spoke about Young professionals and EU integration. After again a very nice lunch Jonathan van Tongeren, Secretary General of ECPYN spoke about <The kind of EU Moldova should not join> in which he spoke about humanist and ultraliberal tendencies in European politics and how to counter these as Christians and <Making Christian Democracy relevant> in which he argued for the ideological strengthening of Christian Democracy in which the ECPM can be instrumental. At the end of the afternoon the conclusions of the different sessions were summarized and some points of action were agreed upon. After dinner there was free time and the group went to the city centre to join the Independence Day festivities around the Triumph Arch.

After the summer school the participants of the summer school will keep in touch by means of facebook, a blogspot and a mailing group. Pictures can be found here and the reader and some of the presentations given at the summer school can be found here.

During the summer school the Youth Movement of BPF <Young Revival> and the Christian Democratic Youth Council (including BCD Youth and Young Front), both from Belarus, were admitted as full member organisations after respectively having been observer member organisation for one year and half a year and the Youth Christian Democratic Movement of Georgia was admitted as observer member organisation.