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

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

and the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

. YES is the youth organisation of the

Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social democratic and progressive European political party. The PES comprises national-level political parties from all member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and the United Kingdom. ...

(PES) and is a sister organization of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY). The seat of the organisation is

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. Full members status is held to the

European Youth Forum The European Youth Forum (from french: Youth Forum Jeunesse, YFJ) is an international non-profit association and serves as a platform and advocacy group of the national youth councils and international non-governmental youth organisations in Euro ...

(YFJ) which operates within the Council of Europe and

areas and works closely with both these bodies.Evaluation of the European Commission-European Youth Forum Operating Grant Agreements
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History

YES was founded as the ''European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth'' (ECOSY) in November 1992 in Oegstgeest/

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. 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 foundation of ECOSY had been controversial. In particular, the

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

ns and the

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

promoted an all-European organisation, including the non- EU members. The ''European Socialist Youth'' (ESY), founded in parallel, was only a weak organisation, a short time later renamed as ''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

* — Forum of Eurosocialist Youth of Albania (FRESSH) also Youth Movement for Integration (LRI) * — Հայկական Երիտասարդաց Դաշնակցութիւն (ՀԵԴ) * — Sozialistische Jugend Österreich (SJÖ) * — Verband Sozialistischer StudentInnen Österreichs (VSStÖ) * — Jongsocialisten * — Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes (MJS) * — Forum Mladih SDP / Social Democratic Youth (SDY) * — Европейска лява младежка алтернатива (ЕЛМА) / European Left Youth Alternative (ELYA) * — Младежко Обединение БСП (МБСП) / BSP Youth Union (BSPYU) * — SDP Youth Forum (FM SDP) * — EDEK Youth * —

Republican Turkish Party The Republican Turkish Party ( tr, Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, CTP) is a social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Northern Cyprus, political party in Northern Cyprus. The party was founded in 1970 by Ahmet Mithat Berberoğ ...

(CTP) Youth * — Mladí Sociální Demokraté (MSD) * — Danmarks Socialdemokratiske Ungdom (DSU) * — Social Democratic Youth (SDY) * — Social Democratic Youth (SDY) * — Sosialidemokraattiset Opiskelijat (SONK) * — Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes (MJS) * — Jusos in der SPD * — Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands – Die Falken (SJD-Die Falken) * —

PASOK Youth PASOK Youth ( el, Νεολαία ΠΑΣΟΚ, translit. Neolaia PASOK) is the youth organization of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party of Greece. The parent party's ideology is social democracy Social democracy is a poli ...

* — Societas – Young Left * — Ungir Jafnaðarmenn (UJ) * —

Labour Youth Labour Youth is the youth wing of the Labour Party of Ireland. Membership is open to those aged from 16 to 30 years old. History 1979–2000 Labour Youth succeeded the Young Labour League as a full section of the Party in 1979, under Party ...

* — Giovani Democratici (GD) * — Federazione dei Giovani Socialisti (FGS) * — Jauniešu organizācija Restart.lv * — Jaunatnes Sociāldemokrātiskā Savienība (JSS) * — Lithuanian Social Democratic Youth Union (LSDYU) * — Jeunesses Socialistes Luxembourgeoises (JSL) * — Forum Zghazagh Laburisti (FZL) * — Youth Council of Democratic party of socialists (YCDPS) * — Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA (JS) * — Social Democratic Youth (SDY) * — Federacja Młodych Socjaldemokratów (FMS) * — Juventude Socialista (JS) * — Tineretul Social Democrat (TSD) * — Democratic Youth (DY) * — Social Democratic Youth (SDY) * —

League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina The League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina ( sr-cyrl, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodine, LSV) is an autonomist political party in Serbia. Its current leader since 19 November 2022 is Bo ...

Youth (LSVO) * — Mladí sociálni demokrati (MSD) * — Mladi forum Socialnih demokratov (Mladi forum SD) * — Joventut Socialista de Catalunya (JSC) * — Juventudes Socialistas de España (JSE) * — Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Ungdomsförbund (SSU) * — Socialdemokratiska Studentförbundet (SSF) * — JungsozialistInnen Schweiz / Jeunesse socialiste suisse / Gioventù Socialista Svizzera (JUSO/JS/GS) * — CHP Gençlik Kolları * —

Labour Students Labour Students is a student organisation within the Labour Party of the United Kingdom. It is a network of affiliated college and university clubs, known as Labour Clubs, who campaign in their campuses and communities for Labour's values of e ...

* — Young Labour * (

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

) —

SDLP Youth SDLP Youth is the youth wing of the social democratic and Irish nationalist political party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). Membership of the organisation is entitled to SDLP party members of the age 30 and under. It is organised ...

* —

Young Fabians The Young Fabians is the under age 31 section of the Fabian Society, a socialist society in the United Kingdom that is affiliated to the Labour Party. The Young Fabians operate as a membership-driven think tank that organises policy debates, r ...

(YF)

Observers

Beside these 50 full member organisations there are 14 observer members * — Youth Movement for Integration (LRI) * — Маладыя сацыял-дэмакраты - Маладая Грамада (МСД-МГ) / (MSD-MH) * — Αγώνας / Agonas * —

Egyptian Social Democratic Party The Egyptian Social Democratic Party ( ar-at, الحزب المصرى الديمقراطى الاجتماعى, al-Ḥizb al-Maṣrī al-Dimuqrāṭī al-Ijtmāʿī, ) is a social liberal and a social democratic party in Egypt. It was founded aft ...

(ESDP) Youth * — Young Socialists Georgia (YSG) * — המשמרת הצעירה של מפלגת העבודה / Mishmeret Tse’irah shel Mifleget haAwoda (Young Labour) * — Young Meretz,

Meretz Youth Meretz Youth ( Hebrew: נוער מרצ, ''Noar Meretz'') is the youth wing of the Israeli political party Meretz. The organization was founded in 1992, after the union between the Israeli political parties Mapam and Ratz. The first coordinator o ...

* — South Tyrolean European Democratic Youth (STEDY) * — Progressive Youth Organization (PYO) * — Arbeidernes ungdomsfylking (AUF) * — Fatah Youth * — Российский социал-демократический союз молодёжи (РСДСМ) / Russian Social-Democratic Union of Youth (RSDYU) * — Giovani Socialisti e Democratici (GSD) * — Jeunes Socialistes Démocrates (JSD) * — Union of Young Socialists (SMS)

Presidents

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

EU Presidency The official title President of the European Union (or President of Europe) does not exist, but there are a number of presidents of European Union institutions, including: * the President of the European Council (since 1 December 2019, Charle ...

*1992 Tracy Paul (Young Labour) *1993

Henrik Sass Larsen Henrik Sass Larsen (born 29 May 1966 in Virum) is a Danish politician. He is a former member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He sat in parliament from 2000 to 2019. He was the Danish Minister of Business Affairs and Gr ...

(Danmarks Socialdemokratiske Ungdom) *1993 Ronald Gossiaux (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes /

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

) *1994 Vasilis Togias (Neolaia Pasok) *1994 Reinhold Rünker (Jusos in der SPD) *1995 Renaud Lagrave (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes) *1995 Martin Guillermo (Juventudes Socialistas de España) *1995 Paco-Luis Benitez (Juventudes Socialistas de España) *1996 Vinicio Peluffo (Sinistra Giovanile) *1996 Mick McLoughlin (Labour Youth) *1997 Thomas Windmulder (Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA) Afterwards, ECOSY has an elected president *1997–1999

Andreas Schieder Andreas Schieder (born 16 April 1969) is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Previously in his career, Schieder served as parliamentary leader of the Social Democratic Party in the National Counci ...

(Sozialistische Jugend Österreich) *1999–2001 Hugues Nancy (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes) *2001–2003 Jan Krims (Verband Sozialistischer StudentInnen Österreichs) *2003–2005 Anders Lindberg (Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Ungdomsförbund) *2005–2009 Giacomo Filibeck (Sinistra Giovanile) *2009–2011 Petroula Nteledimou (Neolaia PASOK) *2011–2015 Kaisa Penny (Demarinuoret & SONK) *2015–2017 Laura Slimani (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes) *2017–2019 Joao Albuquerque ( Juventude Socialista) *Since 2019 Alicia Homs (Juventudes Socialistas de España)

Secretaries General

*1992–1997 Philip Cordery (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes /

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

) *1997–1999 Pau Solanilla (Juventudes Socialistas de España) *1999–2003 Yonnec Polet (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes /

) *2003–2005

Ilias Antoniou Ilias may refer to: * the ''Iliad'', an ancient Greek epos * Ilias (name), a personal name (including a list of people with the name) * ILIAS, a web-based learning management system * 6604 Ilias, an asteroid See also * Profitis Ilias (disambiguat ...

(Neolaia Pasok) *2005–2009 Ania Skrzypek (Federacja Młodych Socjaldemokratów) *2009–2011 Janna Besamusca (Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA) *2011–2015 Thomas Maes (Jongsocialisten; ex Animo) *2015–2017 Nina Živanović (SDY in SDU) *2017–2019 Tuulia Pitkänen ( Sosialidemokraattiset Nuoret /

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

) *2019–2020 Maj Christensen Jensen (Danmarks Socialdemokratiske Ungdom) *Since 2020 Ana Pirtskhalava (Young Socialists Georgia)

Congresses

*1992 Oegstgeest/

*1994

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

*1997 Strasbourg *1999 Toledo *2001

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

*2003 Bommersvik ( Sweden) *2005 Cascais (

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

) *2007

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

*2009

*2011

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

*2013 Bommersvik ( Sweden) *2015

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*2017

Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in No ...

*2019

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...

Summer camps

*1995

Rimini Rimini ( , ; rgn, Rémin; la, Ariminum) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It sprawls along the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia (the ancient ''Ariminu ...

(

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

) *1996 Iusy Festival

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

*1997 Mazagón (

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) *1998

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

(

) *1999 Livorno (

) *2000 Iusy Festival

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal pop ...

*2001

Debrecen Debrecen ( , is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the largest Hungarian city in the 18th century and ...

(

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...

) *2002 Weißenbach (

) *2003 Iusy Festival Kamena Vourla (

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

) *2004 Năvodari (

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

) *2005

Figueira da Foz Figueira da Foz (), also known as Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast, it is located at the mouth of the Mondego River, west ...

(

) *2006 Iusy Festival

Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

*2007 Iusy100

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

*2008

Carpentras Carpentras (, formerly ; Provençal Occitan: ''Carpentràs'' in classical norm or ''Carpentras'' in Mistralian norm; la, Carpentoracte) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. ...

(

) *2009 Iusy Festival

Zánka Zánka is a village in Veszprém county, Hungary. Etymology ''Zan'' is an ancient Hungarian personal name, and the original name of the settlement. The diminutive suffix ''-ka'' was added later. History Zánka has been inhabited since Roman ...

(

) *2011 Iusy Festival Weißenbach (

) *2012

Savudrija Savudrija () is a coastal settlement in northwestern Istria, Croatia. It has developed from a fishing village into a pleasant holiday centre. Savudrija is also the name of the surrounding area in the peninsula. The 19th century Savudrija Light ...

(

Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capit ...

The Declaration
*2013

Foça Foça is a town and district in Turkey's İzmir Province, on the Aegean coast. The town of Foça is situated at about northwest of İzmir's city center. The district also has a township with its own municipality named Yenifoça (literally ''"Ne ...

(

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

) *2014 Iusy Festival Ghajn Tuffieha (

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

) *2015

Santa Cruz (Torres Vedras) Santa Cruz is a locality in the Silveira parish, part of the municipality of Torres Vedras, Portugal. It is mostly known for its extensive quality beaches. The beach of Santa Cruz served as inspiration for several poets, including Antero de Qu ...

(

) *2016 Palermo (

) *2018 Rota (

) *2019 Varna (

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

)

References

External links

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