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 […]