Getting Growth Going: YEPP Brings Europe’s Centre-Right to Dublin
YEPP held last weekend a Council Meeting in Dublin, hosted by Young Fine Gael. This event has been the largest gathering of Europe’s centre-right in Ireland in over a decade, with delegates from 31 countries attending. Between the 24th and 26th of April, over 80 delegates from across Europe gathered for three days of policy […]
Geopolitics of Tomorrow – With MEP Reinhold Lopatka
Last Wednesday, 11 March, YEPP hosted MEP Reinhold Lopatka, Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the Arab Peninsula (DARP). Together with YEPP President Sophia Kircher and YEPP First Vice-President Tea Jerković, he addressed several pressing questions concerning the situation in Iran, the human cost of regime change, the implications for international law and human […]
In Memory of our President Wilfried Martens: PM Reinfeldt gathers 9 former presidents of YEPP
We, the former Presidents and President of the Youth of the European People’s Party, which was founded under the guidance of the late President of the European People’s Party, Wilfried Martens, in 1997, express our heartfelt condolences upon his passing on Wednesday, 9th October 2013. President Martens was a true European. He believed in ensuring […]
Elections in Luxembourg: My support for Christophe Hansen
I am proud that Christophe Hansen, our active YEPP member from CSJ, is running for National elections in Luxembourg. I know him for his inspiring commitment to the European project, the Common Agricultural Policy and youth employment measures. Christophe, always on the side of PM Juncker was raising CSJ’s voice in Europe, and the European voice in […]
I left my soul behind”: the troubled past and the uncertain future of a sunny Mediterranean island
In the early hours of this morning, for the 39th year in a row, Cyprus was awoken by the familiar but awful sound of war sirens. They go on every year on the same day and time, on the sad anniversary of the Turkish invasion on the island. The 14th of August 1974 was […]
Our choice is youth politics
This summer, during the warmest days of the year, while millions of young Europeans are partying hard at the beach holding colorful cocktails, some others, less tanned, are holding switched on microphones instead. They are called young politicians. Their friends are asking them why they choose this instead of relaxing. Instead of tagging their […]
Party, sports and politics at the summer camp of MIERT
Our newest member of YEPP, the Hungarian Youth Council of Romania (MIERT), hosted the 10th Edition of their EU Camp in Marosfő, Romania. New Europe Now! Let’s build it together! – was more than the motto of the event. Young members of the parliament, MEP`s and more than 150 young participants took the future of […]
Ukraine and the Eastern Partnership
This article is my first blog for the website of the Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP). As elected board member I want to work on three political issues in the upcoming period: freedom of religion, fighting democratic deficit of the EU and further democratisation in Eastern Europe. With the Eastern Partnership Summit in […]
The years of first times – Farewell speech of Csaba Dömötör
“We cannot be the next generation if we take it for granted. No great generation was born without fighting hard for it. But I am optimistic. I believe you can be the next great generation, because YEPP is now much more than a group of talented individuals, it is now a great community of committed […]
YEPP at Mlada Slovenija (MSi) Congress 2013
A sizeable number of delagates from the wider YEPP family attended the 2013 Congress of Mlada Slovenija as invited guests. The event was held in the beautiful Alpine town of Bled. I had the honour to represent YEPP at this event and was pleased to get the opportunity to address our Slovenian colleagues on Saturday, […]
