YEPP in Kyiv: ‘Changing Times: Diversification of Learning’
Kyiv, Ukraine – Members of the Youth of European People’s Party’s (YEPP) will be in Kyiv from the 5th – 8th of December to discuss the diversification of learning in a conference titled ‘Changing Times: Diversification of Learning’. The event organised by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies (WMCES) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung […]
#EPPZAGREB: Great success for EPP and YEPP
Zagreb, Croatia – The recently concluded EPP Congress 2019, was overall a great success not only for the European People’s Party but also for YEPP. YEPP President and MEP Lídia Pereira delivered a speech at the Plenary, where she discussed the present issues faced by the party and Europe as a whole, such as populism […]
YEPP Resolutions adopted by EPP Congress in Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia – The European People’s Party Congress was a great success for the Youth of the European People’s Party in Zagreb yesterday. The two resolutions put forward by YEPP were both unanimously supported and adopted by the EPP Congress during the Plenary Session. Deputy Secretary General Christina Balaska and Vice-President Marcello Gamberale presented the […]
President Pereira: “No more politics without the people”
Zagreb, Croatia – Lídia Pereira, President of YEPP and Member of the European Parliament, addressed the plenary during the EPP Congress today. In her speech, she stressed the need to address the current rise in populism and turn from traditional parties and stated that the solution is found within the party itself, by remembering its genesis and […]
YEPP are backing Helen McEntee for the EPP Vice-Presidency
Youth of the European People’s Party Board are happy to announce that we have nominated and will be endorsing Helen McEntee, Minister for European Affairs of Ireland for the EPP Vice-Presidency candidature at the upcoming EPP Congress. Minister McEntee has been at the front line of the Brexit negotiations as part of the Irish delegation […]
President Lídia Pereira: “To achieve growth, we must work smarter, not harder”
Washington D.C. – Last week, Lídia Pereira – President of YEPP and Member of the European Parliament participated in the 2019 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. Ms Pereira, who is also the EPP Deputy Coordinator for Economic and Monetary Affairs, was invited as a speaker to the panel […]
#ShakeUpPolitics: Use your vote! Part 5 – Switzerland
Switzerland – Last week, the Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP) was in Switzerland to follow around one of the Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz (CVP) young candidates and also YEPP Vice-President who is running in the upcoming elections this Sunday. Tino Schneider (28) currently serves as a Member of the local Parliament in the canton of […]
#ShakeUpPolitics: Use your vote! Part 3 – Poland
Ostrów Wielkopolski & Sieradz, Poland – Youth of the European’s Party (YEPP) visited Poland last week to follow two young candidates running in the national election. Milena Kowalska (28), is the current President of Stowarzyszenie Młoda Demokratka youth wing of Platforma Obywatelska and is a city councillor representing her local district in Ostrow Wielkopolski. Outside […]
#ShakeUpPolitics: Use your vote! Part 2 – Portugal
Porto, Portugal – Last Friday, Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP) was in Porto to follow around one of PSD’s youngest candidates for their upcoming elections this Sunday. Hugo Carvalho (28), a candidate who is first on the PSD list in Porto for the national elections. His first taste for politics was getting involved […]
#ShakeUpPolitics: Use your vote! Part 1 – Austria
Linz, Austria – On Monday, Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP) was in Linz to follow around one of OVP’s youngest candidates for the upcoming elections this Sunday. Claudia Plakolm (24), a candidate running on the OVP list in Upper Austria for the national elections. Claudia was the youngest person elected to the Austrian […]
