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Young European Socialists (ECOSY)
Logo of ECOSY
President Kaisa Penny
Founded 1992 (1992)
Headquarters c.o PES, Rue du Trône,
98 - 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Political Ideology
International Affiliation International Union of Socialist Youth
Mother Party Party of European Socialists
Mother European Parliament Group Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Colours Red
Website www.ecosy.org
See also Politics of the EU

Political parties
Elections

ECOSY - Young European Socialists is an association of social-democratic youth organisations in the European Union. The most widely accepted pronunciation of ECOSY is as a single word with short "e" and short "o".

Ecosy is the youth organisation of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and is a member of the International Union of Socialist Youth (Iusy). The seat of the organisation is Brussels.

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.

Kaisa Penny (Demarinuoret and SONK) is Ecosy president, Thomas Maes (Animo) is Secretary General.

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[edit] History

Ecosy was founded as the European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth in November 1992 in Oegstgeest/The Hague. 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 Austrians 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.

[edit] Member organisations

Beside these 44 full member organisations there are 17 observer members

[edit] Current Ecosy praesidium (2011-2013)

  • President : Kaisa Penny (SDY Finland)
  • Secretary general : Thomas Maes (Animo Belgium)
  • Vice-president : Brando Benifei (SG Italy)
  • Vice-president : Sandra Breiteneder (SJÖ Austria)
  • Vice-president : Johan Büser (SSU Sweden)
  • Vice-president : Sylvia Kunze (Jusos Germany)
  • Vice-president : Silvia Mihalcea (TSD Romania)
  • Vice-president : Eliza Politi (PASOK Youth Greece)
  • Vice-president : Mafalda Serrasqueiro (JS Portugal)
  • Vice-president : Pavel Šílený (MSD Czech Republic)
  • Vice-president : Jure Štajnbaher (Mladi Forum Slovenia)
  • President of the Control Commission : Thomas Graham (Labour Students UK)

[edit] Presidents

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

  • 1992 Tracy Paul (Young Labour)
  • 1993 Henrik Sass Larsen (Danmarks Socialdemokratiske Ungdom)
  • 1993 Ronald Gossiaux (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes / Belgium)
  • 1994 ./. (Neolaia Pasok)
  • 1994 Reinhold Rünker (Jusos in der SPD)
  • 1995 Renaud Lagrave (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes / France)
  • 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 / France)
  • 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)
  • since 2011 Kaisa Penny (Demarinuoret & SONK)

[edit] Secretaries General

  • 1992–1997 Philip Cordery (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes / France)
  • 1997–1999 Pau Solanilla (Juventudes Socialistas de España)
  • 1999–2003 Yonnec Polet (Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes / Belgium)
  • 2003–2005 Ilias Antoniou (Neolaia Pasok)
  • 2005-2009 Ania Skrzypek (Federacja Młodych Socjaldemokratów)
  • 2009-2011 Janna Besamusca (Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA)
  • since 2011 Thomas Maes (Animo)

[edit] Congresses

[edit] Summer camps

[edit] External links

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