Federation of Young European Greens - FYEG

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FYEG is a pan-European federation of Young Green organisations. We do political education, capacity building and advocacy work in all topical areas.

Geschiedenis

The Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) was founded in 1988 in Belgium, with the purpose of bringing together young environmental and Green political groups from all over Europe to encourage both mutual understanding and mutual action to promote a greener Europe. Its office is located in Brussels, the political heart of the EU.

The purpose of the federation is to, on an European level, strive for environmental and social justice.

FYEG has grown enormously from it’s small but ambitious beginnings with just a few Member Organisations (MOs) from both Eastern and Western Europe. It now has 41 MOs from all parts of Europe - 33 Full, 6 candidates, 2 observers. MOs vary in size, having from 70 to thousands of members. Organisations are either the youth wings of Green Parties or environmental non-governmental youth organisations (youth NGOs).

FYEG arranges seminars, study sessions, camps, political debates, training sessions and so on, in different parts of Europe. FYEG also organises campaigns on essential political themes. The most recent ones have been the climate change campaign called Keepitcool! and the Unity in Diversity campaign promoting the fundamental cultural values of the different European citizens.

A vast majority of our members are under 30 years of age and all our events are planned and run by young unpaid activists from all across Europe.

FYEG is well networked on the European level. Not only are communications with the Green Group in the European Parliament and the European Green Party close, with FYEG observers and participants joining every major event of the two, but FYEG also keeps close contact with other institutions, NGOs and political groups.

Some of the most important ones of these are the European Commission and the Council of Europe, as they fund and assist with a lot of the projects and events that FYEG arranges. FYEG also has a full membership in the European Youth Forum , which is one central space for affecting policy making in the youth field in Europe. It is also within the context of the Youth Forum that a lot of the cooperation with other youth organisations of various parties occurs.

During the past few years, an FYEG priority has been our expanding network in Central and Eastern Europe. This is reflected in the recent full membership of organisations from Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia, as well as the candidate memberships from Ukraine, Albania and Romania. An allied organisation, called Co-operation and Development Network Eastern Europe (CDN), that facilitates contacts with even further organisations has been set up and is functioning extremely well.

In the future the aim of the FYEG is to deepen its cooperation with the existing Europe-wide Green structures as well as deepen and strengthen the connections to the Member Organisations.