European Youth Parliament - Definition

EYP (The European Youth Parliament, Parlement Européen des Jeunes) is a non-profit, politically unaffiliated organization, which encourages European youth to participate in European politics. It was established in 1987.

National organizations

National EYP organizations can be found in:

• Armenia
• Austria - EYP Austria (http://www.eyp.at/)
• Belarus - EYP Belarus (http://www.eyp.by.ru/)
• Belgium - EYP Belgium (http://www.eyp.be/)
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic - EYP Czech Republic (http://www.eyp.cz/)
• Denmark
• Estonia - EYP Estonia (http://www.eypestonia.ee)
• Finland - EYP Finland (http://www.eypfinland.org)
• France - PEJ France (http://www.pejfrance.org/)
• Georgia
• Germany - EYP Germany (http://www.eyp.de)
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland - EYP Ireland (http://www.eypireland.com/)
• Italy
• Latvia - EYP Lativa (http://www.eyp.lv/)
• Lithuania - EYP Lithuania (http://www.eyplithuania.com)
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland - EYP Switzerland (http://www.eyp.ch)
• Turkey
• Ukraine - EYP Ukraine (http://eyp.iatp.org.ua/)
• United Kingdom - EYP UK (http://www.eypuk.com/)

Sessions

EYP organizes three international nine-day sessions each year. They are organized in different countries and all Europeans are invited to join, not just members of the EU. Each country's national organization selects a ten-member delegation to participate in each session. Each session is composed of committee work on current European political matters and the General Assembly in which the committee resolutions are looked through, altered and approved.

Upcoming Sessions

These are the next international EYP sessions:

• 48th International Session (http://www.eyp.no) in Stavanger (Norway) from the 1st to the 10th of April 2005
• 49th International Session (http://www.basel05.ch) in Basel (Switzerland), in summer 2005

More information can be found at http://www.eyp.org.