We stand for a United Europe

international | eu | press release Monday May 03, 2004 12:32 by International Secretary - Young Fine Gael yfg at finegael dot com

YEPP (The Youth of the European People's Parties) is a centre right grouping of Christian Democratic and Cosnervative youth political parties from all over Europe.

Young Fine Gael is the Irish political party affiliated to this group

On the occasion of the largest European Union enlargement ever, the Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP) wants to celebrate this historic 1st of May 2004.

We welcome today ten new Member States, ten new, strong and solid democracies. We congratulate Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus. They are, from today, fully integrated in the great family of the European Union, taking active part in this fascinating project as main actors of future developments and successes, adding their efforts to those of the rest of Member States as fundamental and solid pillars of the European Union building.

And we welcome today nearly 80 million new European citizens. All of them, all of us, united in one single society, together under one single identity and sharing one single common project: the European Union of the XXI century as the most prosperous area in the world, as a true space for peace, freedom, democracy, welfare, human rights, tolerance and respect.

As European youngsters from all around the European continent YEPP celebrates with joy this extraordinary event and we express today our best wishes for an ongoing process of the EU enlargement, embracing all those States and citizens that will join us in the very near future bringing to reality our common wish of a reunited Europe.


In Brussels, on the 1st of May 2004,

The Youth of the European People’s Party - YEPP