New roaming regulation bringing down prices
YEPP welcomes the new roaming regulation that brings significant reductions to the cost of using mobile phones whilst travelling in another country from 1 July 2012. For the first time price caps will be introduced for downloading data from the internet using a mobile connection. Prices for voice and text calls will also be reduced. […]
Representatives of 33 centre-right youth organizations adopt declaration on Youth Unemployment
The Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP) calls for urgent measures to decrease the alarming rate of youth unemployment. In their declaration, adopted in their recent meeting in Lisbon, representatives of 33 centre-right organizations from all over Europe push for more ambitious commitments in the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework. The declaration also promotes […]
YEPP awards Freedom Prize to Belarusian activist Dzmitry Daskevich
The Freedom Prize of the Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP Freedom Prize) is awarded to persons or organizations for the promotion of human rights in Europe and beyond. It aims to raise awareness to young people that proved extraordinary commitment to fight for freedom and democracy in their country. In 2012, the […]
YES to freedom of speech, NO to political extremism // YEPP’s position on PVV website
The Youth of the European People’s Party expresses its disappointment that the website of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) targeting Eastern European immigrants continues to function. We find it unacceptable that the PVV website encourages Dutch citizens to report on alleged problems and, at the same time, reinforces negative stereotypes regarding Eastern European immigrants thus […]
Postcard campaign to help young political prisoners in Belarus
With Christmas and the New Year approaching, YEPP organizes a postcard campaign to express support to young political prisoners in Belarus, Europe’s last standing dictatorship. We ask you and all our member organizations to send postcards along with some encouraging words to our fellow activists to their prison. It is a small gesture for you, […]
EPP Congress Report: EU leaders strongly endorse all YouthEPP proposals
The influence of Europe’s leading political youth organisation, the Youth of the European People’s Party, took a massive leap forward this week. Firstly, YEPP President, Csaba Dömötör, delivered a hard-hitting speech during the prime-time session of the recent EPP Congress in Marseille this week, where he called on EU leaders to be responsible with the […]
Statement on the 8/9 December EU Summit
The Youth of the European People’s Party positively welcomes the highly ambitious commitments made by European Union leaders as a responsibility for current and future generations. YEPP acknowledges that in spite of the fact that these measures will not solve the crisis in the immediate, their effective implementation will assist to this end. The […]
