Young European Socialists (YES), formerly the European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth (ECOSY), is an association of

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youth organisations in

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and the

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. YES is the youth organisation of the

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

(PES) and is a sister organization of the

International Union of Socialist Youth The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) is an international organization, founded in 1907, whose activities include publications, support of member organizations and the organization of meetings. It was formed as the youth wing of the ...

(IUSY). The

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of the organisation is

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. Full members status is held to the

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(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/

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's ad ...

. 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 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 Bommersvik is a Union college ( sv, italic=yes, Förbundskola from Förbund meaning ''union'' or ''association'' and skola meaning ''school'' or ''college'') built by the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) and is situated outside the mun ...

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 The SDP Youth Forum ( hr, Forum mladih SDP-a, FM SDP) is the youth organisation of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). According to Youth Forum statute, it is an organisation that is committed to building a democratic society in which s ...

(FM SDP) * —

EDEK Youth The Movement for Social Democracy ( el, Κίνημα Σοσιαλδημοκρατών, translit=Kinima Sosialdimokraton, EDEK) is a Greek Cypriot, social-democratic political party in Cyprus. Overview The party was founded by Vasos Lyssaridis in ...

* —

Republican Turkish Party The Republican Turkish Party ( tr, Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, CTP) is a social-democratic political party in Northern Cyprus. The party was founded in 1970 by Ahmet Mithat Berberoğlu, a lawyer, in opposition to the leadership of Fazıl Küçük ...

(CTP) Youth * — Mladí Sociální Demokraté (MSD) * —

Danmarks Socialdemokratiske Ungdom The Social Democratic Youth of Denmark ( da, Danmarks Socialdemokratiske Ungdom, DSU) is the national youth wing of the Danish Social Democrats. It is not to be confused with Frit Forum, which is for those in higher education, and whose membershi ...

(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 pol ...

* — 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 L ...

* — Giovani Democratici (GD) * — Federazione dei Giovani Socialisti (FGS) * — Jauniešu organizācija Restart.lv * — Jaunatnes Sociāldemokrātiskā Savienība (JSS) * —

Lithuanian Social Democratic Youth Union Lithuanian may refer to: * Lithuanians * Lithuanian language * The country of Lithuania * Grand Duchy of Lithuania * Culture of Lithuania * Lithuanian cuisine * Lithuanian Jews as often called "Lithuanians" (''Lita'im'' or ''Litvaks'') by other Jew ...

(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 Socialist Youth ( pt, Juventude Socialista) is the youth organisation of the Socialist Party of Portugal. The Socialist Youth (JS) is a political organization that emerges as a youth party of the Socialist Party. It is integrated, politically an ...

(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 Young Social Democrats ( sk, Mladí sociálni demokrati, MSD) is a social-democratic youth organization in Slovakia connected to the political party Direction – Social Democracy. History ''MSD'' was founded in 2002 from the merger of ''Socia ...

(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. North ...

) —

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 organ ...

* —

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, re ...

(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 afte ...

(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 of M ...

* — South Tyrolean European Democratic Youth (STEDY) * — Progressive Youth Organization (PYO) * — Arbeidernes ungdomsfylking (AUF) * —

Fatah Fatah ( ar, فتح '), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the Confederation, confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organizati ...

Youth * — Российский социал-демократический союз молодёжи (РСДСМ) /

Russian Social-Democratic Union of Youth Russian Social-Democratic Union of Youth (RSDUY; Russian: ''Российский социал-демократический союз молодёжи'', РСДСМ - Rossiyskiy Sotsial-Demokraticheskiy Soyuz Molodiozhi, RSDSM) is a Russian ...

(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 (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 ...

) *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 (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 (

) *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 ar ...

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

) *2003–2005 Ilias Antoniou (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 Bo ...

) *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

( Sweden) *2005

Cascais Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourist destination. Its mar ...

(

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian ...

) *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 official ...

*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 ...

*2013

( Sweden) *2015

Winterthur , neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell , twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austri ...

*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 city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

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 ''Arimin ...

(

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 (

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' ( Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , ...

) *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 popula ...

*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 i ...

(

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

) *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 wit ...

) *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, a ...

) *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, we ...

(

) *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 th ...

*2007 Iusy100

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

*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 (

) *2011 Iusy Festival Weißenbach (

) *2012 Savudrija (

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 ''"N ...

(

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

) *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) (

) *2016

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for it ...

(

) *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 Mac ...

)

References

External links

Official website
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