Youth of European People's Party | |
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President | Lídia Pereira |
Secretary-General | Heidi Hanhela |
Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | Rue du Commerce 10, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium |
Ideology | Christian democracy Conservatism Liberal conservatism Pro-Europeanism |
Political position | Centre-right |
European Parliament group | European People's Party |
Colours | Blue and Black |
Website | |
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Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP) is an umbrella organization of European political youth organisations and is the official youth wing of the European People's Party. YEPP brings together 64 centre-right youth political organisations from 40 countries all over Europe. Founded in 1997 by the 2006–2014 Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt, YEPP has developed into the largest political youth organisation in Europe.
Full members status is held to the European Youth Forum (YFJ) which operates within the Council of Europe and European Union areas and works closely with both these bodies (full members status to the European Youth Forum has also Democrat Youth Community of Europe, whose senior branch merged into the European People's Party in 2002). YEPP is also a full member of the Union of the Robert Schuman Institute for Developing Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Every board is elected for two years.