Democrat Youth Community of Europe
- Christian democracy, Conservatism
The Democrat Youth Community of Europe (DEMYC) is the international umbrella organisation of the youth wings of christian democratic, conservative and like-minded parties of Europe. With currently now more than one million affiliates in its member organisations, DEMYC is one of the strongest political youth organisations in Europe.
DEMYC is the oldest centre-right youth political formation in Europe, founded in 1964, celebrating 51 years of existence. DEMYC currently comprises 45 national organisations from 33 countries from Europe and its neighbourhood.
It is DEMYC's aim to further contacts and strengthen co-operation between its member organisations from European countries and thereby to contribute to a united Europe.
In 1973 DEMYC was granted a consultative status at the Council of Europe and since then represented its member organisations in the activities of the European Youth Centres and the European Youth Foundation.
DEMYC is a full member of the European Youth Forum, a platform of one hundred youth organisations all over Europe, promoting the interest of young people to the institutions of the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the United Nations.
The senior parties of the DEMYC member organisations followed their youth organisation's example and formed in 1978 the European Democrat Union (E.D.U.), a European-wide working association of centre-right parties. DEMYC became a permanent observer of EDU in 1979 and has been actively involved in its political work since then.
Each year DEMYC organises a number of seminars in different parts of Europe. Topics discussed at these meetings in recent years have included: the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and their way into a common future Europe, the European Union and its development to a unified Europe, the North-South dialogue, environmental and employment policy, the future of the welfare state, implications of the introduction of new technologies and a lot more.
On a worldwide level DEMYC has promoted the creation of the International Young Democrat Union (IYDU), thus guaranteeing permanent links to centre and centre-right parties all around the globe. Excellent relations have thereby developed to the Republican Party of the United States as well as to like-minded organisations in Latin-America, Africa and Asia
Study visits have been made to the United States, Central America, Cyprus, Israel, Southern Africa, China, Hong Kong, Turkey and to all former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe before and after their democratisation.
The organisation was founded as the Conservative and Christian Democratic Youth Community of Europe (COCDYC) in May 1964 by the conservative and Christian democratic youth organisations from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Serbia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The current name was adopted at the conference in Manchester in October 1975, to allow for a broader ideological spectrum.
List of Chairpersons
Name | Years | Country |
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John MacGregor | 1964–1966 | United Kingdom |
Dietrich Rollmann | 1966–1968 | Germany |
Ragnvald Dahl | 1968–1970 | Norway |
Alan Haselhurst | 1970–1972 | United Kingdom |
Volker Rühe | 1972–1974 | Germany |
Per Unckel | 1974–1977 | Sweden |
Tony Kerpel | 1977–1979 | United Kingdom |
Elmar Brok | 1979–1981 | Germany |
Gunnar Hökmark | 1981–1983 | Sweden |
Robert Miller-Bakewell | 1983–1985 | United Kingdom |
Alexander Demblin | 1985–1987 | Austria |
Neale Stevenson | 1987–1991 | United Kingdom |
Klaus Welle | 1991–1994 | Germany |
Arthur Winkler-Hermaden | 1994–1995 | Austria |
Fredrik Reinfeldt | 1995–1997 | Sweden |
Stavros Papastavrou | 1997–2001 | Greece |
Meinhard Friedl | 2001–2006 | Austria |
Ines Elise Prainsack | 2006–2008 | Austria |
Páll Heimisson | 2008–2010 | Iceland |
Jani Johansson | 2010–2012 | Finland |
Antonio de Lucia | 2012–2015 | Italy |
Javier Hurtado Mira | 2015– | Spain |
Executive Bureau 2018–20
The new DEMYC Executive Bureau was elected on May, 2018 by the 26th DEMYC Congress.
Name | Country | Position |
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Javier Hurtado Mira | Spain | Chairman |
Margherita Saltini | Italy | Secretary General |
Lilit Beglaryan | Armenia | Deputy Secretary Gerenal |
Falah Hasan | Kurdistan | First Vice Chairman |
Juela Hamati | Albania | Vice Chairman |
Athanasios Lazaros Moldovanidis | Greece | Vice Chairman |
Andrej Čuš MP | Slovenia | Vice Chairman |
Marko Dejanovic | Serbia | Vice Chairman |
See also
External links
- Democrat Youth Community of Europe – official website
- The Only Constant is Change: DEMYC - 40th Anniversary – history book
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non-
governmental
youth
organisations
- Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l'Europe
- Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations
- ACTIVE - Sobriety, Friendship and Peace
- Board of European Students of Technology
- Democrat Youth Community of Europe
- European Bureau of Conscientious Objection
- European Confederation of Youth Clubs
- European Democrat Students
- European Educational Exchanges – Youth for Understanding
- European Federation for Intercultural Learning
- European Liberal Youth
- Erasmus Student Network
- European Students' Union
- European Trade Union Confederation Youth
- EU Federation of Youth Hostel Associations
- European Union of Jewish Students
- Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe
- International Federation of Catholic Parochial Youth Movements (Fimcap)
- Federation of Young European Greens
- International ATD Fourth World Movement
- International Federation of Liberal Youth
- International Falcon Movement - Socialist Education International
- International Federation of Medical Students' Associations
- International Union of Socialist Youth
- International Young Nature Friends
- International Young Catholic Students - International Movement of Catholic Students
- IGLYO
- Young European Federalists
- International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth Europe (MIJARC Europe)
- Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions
- Service Civil International
- World Esperanto Youth Organization
- World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- World Organization of the Scout Movement
- Youth Action for Peace
- Youth and Environment Europe
- Youth of the European People's Party
- Youth for Exchange and Understanding
- European Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations
- Youth of European Nationalities
- Young European Socialists
- Young Women's Christian Association
youth
councils
- Allianssi
- British Youth Council
- Nationale Jeugdraad
- Comité pour les Relations Nationales et Internationales des Associations de Jeunesse et d'Education Populaire
- Eesti Noorteühenduste Liit
- Conférence Générale de la Jeunesse Luxembourgoise
- Consejo de la Juventud de España
- Conselho Nacional de Juventude
- Consell Nacional de la Joventut de Catalunya
- Consiliul Național al Tineretului din Moldova
- Comité pour les Relations Internationales de Jeunesse
- National Youth Council of Switzerland
- Cyprus Youth Council
- Deutsches Nationalkomitee für Internationale Jugendarbeit
- Dansk Ungdoms Fællesråd
- National Youth Council of Greece
- Forum Nazionale dei Giovani
- Kunsill Nazzjonali Taz-Zghazagh
- Lietuvos jaunimo organizacijų taryba
- Latvijas Jaunatnes Padome
- Landsrådet for Norske barne- og ungdomsorganisasjoner
- Landsrådet för Sveriges ungdomsorganisationer
- Landsamband æskulýðsfélaga
- Mladinski Svet Slovenjie
- Mreža Mladih Hrvatske
- National Assembly of Youth Organisations of the Republic of Azerbaijan
- National Council of Youth Organisations of Georgia
- National Youth Council of Armenia
- National Youth Council of Ireland
- National Youth Council of Russia
- Österreichische Kinder- und Jugendvertretung
- Belarusian Union of Youth and Children's Public Associations
- Rada Mládeže Slovenska
- Česká rada dětí a mládeže
- Vlaamse Jeugdraad