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 Activities 2003-2007
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YEPP Seminar Ljubljana, Slovenia
YEPP SEMINAR Croatia
YEPP was delighted to invite her member organisations at the YEPP Seminar titled “Climate Change", which took place in Zagreb (Croatia) from Thursday, 6th September until Sunday 9th September 2007. This topic is a key topic on the European agenda and certainly also in most of our countries. Besides field experts and academical people, YEPP had the honour to have Mr. Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia as guest speaker.
This seminar was perfectly hosted by YEPP Full Member MHDZ and was organised in cooperation with the European People's Party. Enclosed you can find: 1. Final Programme 2. Executive summary of the working paper on Climate Change 3. Adopted Working paper on Climate Change 4. Emergency resolution on fires 5. Adopted resolution on the Ukranian election Feel free to contact Ann-Pascale Mommerency at the YEPP Office if you have any further question.
YEPP SUMMERSCHOOL We have had our congress in Stockholm. A new YEPP Board is elected, we adopted a new political programme, as well as new statutes … A new team is full energy to continue our activities all over Europe. YEPP held its yearly YEPP Summerschool in Limassol (Cyprus) from Wednesday, 27th June until Sunday 1st July 2007. The summerschool dealt with the following topic: “European Neighbourhood Policy. The case of the Middle East”. High ranking speakers were talking and answering to questions related to the topic. YEPP had also the honour to have Mr. Kasoulides, candidate to the Presidency of Cyprus as guest. Enclosed you can find the final programme. Feel free to contact Ann-Pascale Mommerency at the YEPP Office if you have any further question. 6th YEPP CONGRESS and YEPP’s 10th ANNIVERSARY! YEPP gathered from 10-13 May 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden for its 6th YEPP Congress. A congress is the highest statutory body of YEPP and is only gathering each 2 years. Besides the congress, YEPP also celebrated its 10th Anniversary! It was therefore an honour that one of YEPP’s Founding Father, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, celebrated this event with us.
This congress was hosted by YEPP Full Members KDU and MUF.
This event was also a co-project with European People’s Party. YEPP was also be delighted to welcome EPP Chairman Wilfried Martens and other high-ranking persons to this extra-ordinary event.
This congress adopted a new political programme, as well as new statutes. Furthermore, internal elections were held
for a new YEPP president and a new Board. We also elected 2 financial auditors.
Enclosed you can find the following documents:
Final Programme
Adopted political programme"Tomorrow's Answers start today!"
Adopted YEPP Statutes
Resolution on "Fair Chances for Young Citizens everywhere!" and
Resolution "Ambitions for the EU Treaty"
Resolution on Belarus
Resolution on Kurdistan
Resolution on Cuba
Resolution Strategies for Combating Terrorism in Europe
Resolution Nuclear Non-proliferation
Please find enclosed some interesting documents:
1. Press release of YEPP
2. Overview of the newly elected YEPP Board 2007-2009
3. Introduction speech of YEPP President Yannis Smyrlis (Saturday 12 May 2007, Stockholm)
4. Speech of EPP President Wilfried Martens (held at the YEPP Congress on the 11th May, Stockholm)
Feel free to contact the Ann-Pascale Mommerency at YEPP Office if you have any further question.
ROTTERDAM SEMINAR The first event of the year took place in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) from Thursday, 18th January until Sunday 21st January 2007. The seminar was titled “Proving Europe's worth. Transport: the energy to drive Europe's future” and with such a topic YEPP dealt with a theme that is from high importance on the European agenda.
The seminar was hosted by YEPP Full Member CDJA The Netherlands. This event is also a co-project with the EPP-ED group, Havenbedrijf Rotterdam, Eduardo Frei Foundation, CDA Rotterdam and was co-organised by the European People’s Party. Enclosed you can find the adopted working paper and resolutions, as well as the final programme. 1. Adopted working paper on Transport
2. Resolution on Nuclear Energy 3. Resolution on Tax competition 4. Emergency resolution on the Death Penalty 5. Final programme (was changed on the last moment due to the difficult start of the seminar caused by the big absence of the arrivals that was unforeseen due to the tremendous storms all across Europe) KORTRIJK SEMINAR We were proud to have invited you to take part in this YEPP Seminar titled “Innovation and Space”, which took place in Belgium (Kortrijk/Brussels) from Thursday, 7th December until Sunday 10th December 2006.
This seminar was hosted by YEPP Full Member JONG CD&V ( Flandres/Belgium). This event was also co-organised by the European People’s Party.
Enclosed you can find : 1. Draft Programme
2. Technical Details
3. Draft Working Paper 4.Resolution on europeanization of Serbia
5.Resolution on european economic clusters
6.Working paper on innovation and space
7.Resolution on Russia-Georgia
8.Resolution on on Unity in Diversity
BUDAPEST SEMINAR The last YEPP event took place in Budapest in times where Hungarian politics are phasing difficulties. 80 participants from 30 countries were present at the seminar that was titled “New Challenges in the 21st Century – Fighting terrorism without loosing sight of human rights”. It took place in Budapest (Hungary) from Thursday, 12th October until Sunday 15th October 2006. SERBIA SUMMERSCHOOL Last year we could not manage to organise a summerschool but 2006 has given us new opportunities.
The upcomingYEPP Summerschool titled “Campaigning for Europe!”, will take place in Belgrade and Zlatibor (Serbia) from Wednesday, 12th July until Sunday 16th July 2006. This summerschool will be hosted by YEPP Observer Member YDPS (Serbia).
This event will offer a mixture of themes that can be interesting for your organisation. A summerschool is also an ideal possibility to offer the change to introduce new youngsters to the political platform.
Enclosed you can find : 1. Preliminary Programme
2. Technical Details
3. Application Form 4. General information about Serbia
Inscriptions can only be accepted if you are member of YEPP and if your organisation is seeing you as it representative. The absolute inscription deadline is stated on Tuesday 27th June 2006 (12h00 Brussels time) the latest. We are obliged to refuse inscriptions after the deadline and we can also only allow 2 participants from each organisation.
As we are on 2 locations, it is surely needed to send your exact arrival and departure times to YEPP Office. Please read carefully also the technical in which you can find a lot of interesting info.
We will send out a more completed programme as well as some other related documents as soon as possible. Your organisation can send in also resolutions and/or reports that you want to introduce to the YEPP Council. They should reach the YEPP Office by 27th June 2006, at 12h00 the latest! Please contact the YEPP Office for any kind of question.
MALLORCA SEMINAR It had been 2 years that all the Presidents of our Member Organisations had gathered. Therefore the 5th YEPP Chairmen’s Conference titled “Europe alive!”, offered a platform for this meeting. The conference took place with 82 participants in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) from Thursday, 15th June until Sunday 18th June 2006. The conference was hosted by the local division of YEPP Full Member NN.GG (Spain) and also the European People’s Party (EPP) has cooperated in this.
We had put on the agenda a crucial theme for the future of Europe, which dominated the agenda of all political leaders in the coming months. Besides some high-ranking politicians like EPP Secretary General Antonio Lopez di Isturiz and International Secretary (Partido Popular) Mr. Moragas, several national chairmen also presented their visions about the future of Europe. Some speeches can be found in attachment.
Enclosed you can find the following adopted documents (working paper and resolutions) as well as the final programme:
1. Adopted Resolution on the Future of Europe
2. Adopted Resolution “European Resource Programme”
3. Adopted Resolution “Financing our ambitions”
4. Adopted Resolution on Human trafficking
5. Adopted Resolution for MCL in Cuba
6. Adopted Resolution “Keeping an aging Europe vital for future generations”
7. Adopted Resolution on Education through Sports
8. Adopted Resolution on Transparent Financing
You can also find an overview of all Chairmen that were present and the final program.
For any questions, please contact the YEPP Office.
CHISINAU SEMINAR The last YEPP Seminar titled “Avoiding new dividing lines in Europe”, took place in Chisinau (Moldova) from Thursday, 27th April until Sunday 30th April 2006. This seminar was perfectly hosted by YEPP Full Member NG PPCD (Moldova). 65 participants discussed about this region but also about the current gas problematic of Russia, Ukraine and others. PRAGUE SEMINAR YEPP organized in cooperation with YEPP’s full Member MKD, Czech Republic, its first event of the YEPP 2006.
The seminar was titled "Wide European Market – chance for young entrepreneurs and employees", and took place in Prague and Zdar nad Sazanou (Czech Republic) from Thursday, 26th January until Sunday 29th January 2006. 34 countries were welcomed by MKD President David Cermak and YEPP president David Hansen. Besides specialists and other high ranking guest speakers, 97 youngsters were discussing about youth entrepreneurship. Besides this also the upcoming EPP Congress was prepared on basis of the Draft Rome Manifesto that was presented by EPP Deputy Secretary General Christian Kremer.
The approved documents of this event can be found under “Documents and Reports”.
Enclosed you can also found the full programme. COPENHAGEN SEMINAR From 17th until the 20th of November YEPP was present in Copenhagen, Denmark for its next seminar. Hosting organizations of this event were KU and KDU, Denmark. This seminar was also be organized in cooperation with Microsoft.
The seminar was the Kick-off seminar for a Young European Politicymaking process and will be named “Shaping the Europe we want!”. Besides the YEPP Members, YEPP did invite all young Members of the European Parliament (MEP), in order to launch a kind of a “Young MEP’s-network”. YEPP SEMINAR TBILISI ( GEORGIA),29 SEPTEMBER -2 OCTOBER 2005
4 th YEPP BALKAN CONFERENCE BELGRADE(SERBIA&MONTENEGRO), 23-26 JUNE 2005
o Historical session : reflections were made related to the historical political session during the last 15 years, the current situation and the upcoming future in the next 15 years (1990-2005-2020). In this part we reflected on Serbian’s role and understanding in an European integration process and the implementation of the Council of Europe Conventions.
o Educational session: “The Best are leaving” How can and the Balkan region create enough incentives and perspectives for young high educated people to trust in Serbian’s economy and further development. What is the role and link between education and employment policy.
o Social and economical session: Is social security and economical prosperity as factor for a stabile development. This part discussed about the current social situation for the Serbian population and also reflected on planned social reforms.
o Political session: The role of political parties in a developing society. This part was focussed on the political system in , the continuance of democratic process and European integration. Here we could also focus on the role of international, party-political co-operation.
o "Perspectives for Balkan Integration in Euro-Atlantic Structures” – How should the whole Balkan region be integrated in Euro-Atlantic structures. This part gave the participants the opportunity to discuss - together with guest speakers – the acting integration process.
In working groups also a working paper was discussed and President David Hansen made also at the end some final conclusions.
Enclosed you can find the final programme and the approved documents can be found in the box “Documents and Reports”.
5 th YEPP CONGRESS PARIS (FRANCE),17-20 MARCH 2005
During this congress a lot of invited guests were present : Former Prime Minister and EPP Chairman Wilfried Martens, EPP Secretary General Antonio Lopez Isturiz, president of European Youth Forum, DEMYC, EDS, LYMEC, … and many others. There was also a breakfast with the French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, as well as a gathering with UMP President Nicolas Sarkozy.
During this Congress, the Norwegian Christian-Democrat David Hansen (KrFU) was elected as new YEPP President, as well as a new YEPP Board for the upcoming period of 2 years (2005-2007).
YEPP also welcomed the following observer members as new YEPP Full Members: Res Publica Juventus (Estonia) Jeunes UMP (France), Youth of the Latvian People’s Party (Latvia), Nova Generacia (Slovakia), Young Rukh (Ukraine)
New YEPP Observers are: Young Rights (Georgia) and Pro Patria Union Youth (Latvia).
Enclosed you can find the final programme and the approved documents can be found in the box “Documents and Reports”. YEPP SEMINAR LARNACA (CYPRUS),3-6 FEBRUARY 2005
During the seminar different discussion panels were held. Dr. Christos Iacovou, Middle East expert, discussed security and stability issues in
All delegates went also
Enclosed you can find the final programme and the approved documents can be found in the box “Documents and Reports”. YEPP SEMINAR POZNAN (POLAND),9-12DECEMBER 2004
YEPP SEMINAR OSLO(NORWAY),7-10 OKTOBER 2004
Several panel discussions took place:
- a discussion on the “Eastern Enlargement – consequences for the New Neighbourhood Policy”
- a discussion on “ – the last European dictatorship?, What could the EU do to improve the situation?”
- a discussion on “the Influence of the presidential elections in on the country’s relations with the EU” gathered three excellent experts. Vladymyr Horbach from Institute for Euro – Atlantic Cooperation in
On Saturday the YEPP (permanent) working groups took place as well as the YEPP Council. That evening delegates MD held also its 10th Anniversary Party”.
Enclosed you can find the final program and the approved documents can be found in the box “Documents and Reports”. Most of the seminar was spent at the Office of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, where the seminar, working groups and Council meeting took place. First up was a session called “Social Europe and Public Health Issues”, adressed by Helmut Wagner, director of the Amsterdam Group. Next up was a session on the value based approach to politics, addressed by the prime minister of , Kjell Magne Bondevik. Luc Vandeputte, Deputy Secretary General of EPP, later held a presentation on EPP and the need for YEPP as a youth organisation within the party. The final speaker on Friday was Erna Solberg, President of Hoyre and Minister of local and regional affairs, with a presentation on the challenges of a multicultural
The last day was set aside for the YEPP working groups and the YEPP council to meet. Most of the day was spent to discuss the draft political programme, “Social Europe: More freedoms – more opportunities”, which was later adopted by the Council.
Enclosed you can find the final program and the approved documents can be found in the box “Documents and Reports”. SUMMERSCHOOL RHODES(GREECE),29 JULY-1AUGUST 2004
Different panel discussions were held. A representative for the Youth Mobility Program and from the International Immigration Office discussed about young immigrants and their possibilities. Mr. Stavros Papastavrou, Secretary General of International Affairs of Nea Demokratia and Mrs. Rodi Kratsa, MEP discussed on Minorities in the enlarged EU. YEPP participants got the opportunity to discuss afterwards.
On Friday, a debate on a Common European Immigration Policy was held. Also the 4 YEPP Permanent Working groups also took place. Besides political discussions, the programme offered also some free time to profit from the magnificent historical beauty of the Rhodes city!
On Saturday working groups and the council took place. The Council approved a Resolution on Immigration, a Resolution on Minorities and a Resolution on the violence against ethnic minorities in Serbia. EPP Deputy Secretary General Christian Kremer reported on the result of the European Elections and the role of the EPP in the choice of the new President and the Commissioners of the European Commission. After the meeting, a farewell diner took place in the centre of Rhodes City, where the YEPP delegates were welcomed by the Mayor of Rhodes. YEPP SEMINAR TURKU(FINLAND),13-16 MAY 2004
Seminar methodology included panel debates and participatory discussions in small groups in addition to more traditional lecture inputs. The programme was sparked with an outdoor activity at the Turku market square which facilitated a smooth introduction to local life for the international guests. The culmination point of the happening was the celebration of EU enlargement and promotion of voting in the June EU elections especially among young people. The market square rally was organised in co-operation with KNL’s regional and local factions.
At the end also the YEPP Council Meeting was held. The documents which were approved can be found in the box “Documents and Reports” as well as the final program of this event.
Enclosed you can find the final program and the approved documents can be found in the box “Documents and Reports”. CHAIRMEN'S CONFERENCE LISBON(PORTUGAL),25-28 MARCH 2004
Secretary of State of Science and Education and former President of JSD (Mr. Jorge Moreira da Silva) talked about “The Lisbon Agenda: Science and Innovation”, and the member of the Parliament and Vice-President of the PSD Parliamentary Group (Mr. Miguel Frasquilho) speeched on “Competitiveness in an enlarged Europe”.
All YEPP Chairmen gathered (33 YEPP member organisations)to report a little bit about the current political situation in their country and their party.
On Saturday YEPP had the priviledge to have the visit of two Prime-Ministers : the Prime-Minister of Portugal at the time and actual President of the European Comission (Mr. Durão Barroso), and the Prime-Minister of the Netherlands (Mr. Peter Jan Balkenende). After a welcome word of YEPP President the Prime-Ministers focused their interventions on the necessity of having a stronger union between the Member States of the European Union, especially after the enlargement of the E.U. to 10 new countries. Mr. Durão Barroso spoke about the recent tragedy that took place in our neighbour country (Spain), and focused his concerns about the last terrorism acts all over the world. The Portuguese Prime-Minister and President of PSD gave his personal opinion and expressed that we are really in the middle of a war after the tragic day of 11th of September, a war that is different of all the ones we see on TV. In the afternoon the YEPP Council Meeting was held where 2 working papers were approved : One about “Research and Development”and the second one about “Competitiveness in an Enlarged Europe”.
After the Council meeting the YEPP delegation went to Sintra for a farewell diner, that was hosted by the City Council of Sintra in the beautiful Palace of Seteais. There, the last speeches of the YEPP Chairmen’s Conference were addressed by the President of YEPP (Daniel Bautista), the President of JSD (Jorge Nuno Sá), and by the Vice-President of the City Hall of Sintra (Mr. Lacerda Tavares).
Enclosed you can find the final program and the approved documents can be found in the box “Documents and Reports”. YEPP SEMINAR DUBLIN(IRELAND),29 JANUARY-1 FEBRUARY 2004
The meetings took place in the offices of the European Parliament. First up was a panel discussion on the ‘Current State and the Future of the Trans-Atlantic Relation’. Due to his presence in Ireland because of the Irish EU Presidency, the meeting was addressed by Kyle Scott, the Political Minister of the USA’s mission to the EU. He addressed the delegates on the topic, and offered us the view-point of the current US Administrations’ view point on the relationship. He believed that NATO bound the US to Europe, and questioned why Europeans wanted ‘to duplicate the framework, rational and development achieved by NATO.’’ The Canadian Ambassador to Ireland, Mark J. Moher, also addressed the meeting and he was very eager to put across the distinctive viewpoint on the relationship that Canada offered. The meeting was also addressed by a former YFG activist and a current professor, lecturing on European Affairs, Ben Tonra. Next up was the discussion on the ‘Tensions within the Trans-Atlantic Relationship’ and was addressed by a panel of eminent people, including Gay Mitchell the Fine Gael spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, (retired) Captain Tom Clonan, Paul Gillespie of the Irish Times newspaper and Brendan Halligan of the European Institute.
Gay Mitchell spoke initially of Enlargement and of Fine Gael’s enthusiasm for this process; he described the enlarged Union as a Union of ‘ weight of wealth and of influence’. While Gay Mitchell accepted that there was a possibility of the pervious warm relationship between the EU and the US cooling in the future, he felt the Javier’s Solana’s analogy between Europe as the proverbial Venus (the bringer of peace) and the US as the proverbial Mars (the bringer of war) was unhelpful and untrue.
Later in the evening we were privileged to be addressed by former Irish Prime Minster and Fine Gael leader (currently EU Ambassador in Washington), John Bruton. John Bruton’s presentation covered the broad span of history between European and the United States, dating back to the influence of two major European ideals, the Rights of Man and the Protestant German Revolution on the American War of Independence. Furthermore John Bruton argued that the US revolution also had a knock on affect for the French Revolution and much later, the German Constitution which owed much to its American counterpart’s federal structure.
Also a representative of Amnesty International, who gave us an outline of the organisations current campaign to reduce the amount of small arms weapons currently in existence throughout the world.
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