| Young European Socialists (ECOSY) | |
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| President | Kaisa Penny |
| Founded | 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 |
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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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.
Beside these 44 full member organisations there are 17 observer members
Since the founding of ECOSY in 1992 until 1997, the presidency rotated simultaneously with the EU Presidency
Afterwards, ECOSY has an elected president
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