Young European Socialists

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Young European Socialists
President João Martins Pereira
Vice President
  • Aleksandra Iwanowska
  • Rachid Khenissi
  • Anne Pilgaard
  • Karlo Vedak
  • Kristina Scepanovic
  • Ines João Rodrigues
  • Eli Harris
  • George Tsoumas
  • Juan Diego Romero Pinas
  • Christopher Lindvall
Founded1992 (1992)
HeadquartersRue Guimard 10-12
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Ideology Social democracy
Mother party Party of European Socialists
International affiliation International Union of Socialist Youth
Party of European Socialists
Progressive Alliance
Website youngsocialists.eu

Young European Socialists (YES), formerly the European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth (ECOSY), is an association of social democratic youth organisations in Europe and the European Union.

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YES is the youth organisation of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and is a sister organization of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY). The seat of the organisation is Brussels. [1]

Full members status is held to the European Youth Forum (YFJ) which operates within the Council of Europe and European Union areas and works closely with both these bodies. [2]

History

YES was founded as the European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth (ECOSY) in November 1992 in Oegstgeest/The Hague. The preparatory committee consisted of Philip Cordery (MJS, France), Joris Jurriëns (JS-PvdA, Netherlands), Jens Geier (Jusos, Germany), Giustina Magistretti (Italy), and Pascal Smet (Belgium).

Before 1992 the European activities had been coordinated inside IUSY, especially in the European Leaders Meeting.

The European Socialist Youth (ESY), founded in parallel, was only a weak organisation, a short time later renamed the European Committee, one of the IUSY continental committees.

The organisation's name was changed to Young European Socialists (YES) at the 11th Congress in Bommersvik in 2013.

Affiliated organisations

Full members

Observers

Presidents

Since the founding of ECOSY in 1992 until 1997, the presidency rotated simultaneously with the EU Presidency

Afterwards, ECOSY has an elected president

Secretaries General

Congresses

Summer camps

References

    1. ↑ "ECOSY-Young European Socialists asbl" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
    2. ↑ Evaluation of the European Commission-European Youth Forum Operating Grant Agreements
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