The Federation of Young European Greens is an umbrella organisation that gathers young green movements and organisations across Europe. FYEG's aim is to defend climate and social justice on the European level. Since 2007, FYEG is the European Green Party's youth wing. FYEG brings together 34 member organisations, two partner organisations and three partners. It also holds a full membership to the European Youth Forum which operates within the Council of Europe and European Union areas and works closely with both these bodies.
History
The Federation of Young European Greens was created in 1988. Gerard Onesta was one of the founding members. The idea of a European federation was brought up in Strasbourg in 1988 by French, Belgian, Luxemburgish and German young members from Green parties. In 2002, during a FYEG General Assembly in Belgrade, Cooperation and Development network was founded. Its goal is to develop and support green youth organisations in Eastern and South Eastern Europe. From then on, FYEG became more political and strengthened its links with the European Green Party and European Youth Fourm. In 2007, it became EGP's official youth wing and therefore has voting rights in EGP's organs. In 2009, FYEG launched its first internal European campaign in order to promote young candidates at the European elections. Three MEPs were elected: Ska Keller, Jan Philipp Albrecht and Karima Delli. During the 2014 elections, they also promoted young candidates especially Ska Keller who became FYEG's nominee for the Green Primary. Among the candidates they promoted, Terry Reintke and Linnéa Engström and Ernest Urtasun were elected in 2014 as MEPs.
Structure
General Assembly (GA)
The General Assembly is the highest decision-making body of FYEG. All full member organisations have two votes in the GA, candidate member organisations have one vote and observer organisations can send observers. The General Assembly is held yearly in a different country. It is during the General Assembly that members of the different structures are elected.
The executive committee is the second highest decision-making body in FYEG. It handles the management of the federation on a day-to-day basis. The EC is composed of 8 members. Within the EC, there are two co-spokespersons and a treasurer. The EC members are elected for one year and can renew their mandates three times.
Female Co-Spokespersons
In the General Assembly taking place between May 9&12 2018, the FYEG celebrated 30 years of the organisation. During this GA, there were elected for the first time two female co-spokesperson on behalf of FYEG: Zuzana Pavelková coming from Mladí zelení and Katri Ylinen, coming from ViNO.
The FCC's tasks include a yearly meeting, dedicated to checking FYEG's finances. A written report of this meeting must be submitted to the EC, thereby providing an internal audit and the presentation of this yearly report to the delegates at the GA. Members of the FCC are elected for two years by the GA.
The advisory Committee follows the functioning of the EC and personnel and they assist in conflict resolution between EC members and/or personnel. These are usually former EC members or people who were involved in FYEG. The Advisory Committee ensures the transfer of knowledge within FYEG and acts as a conflict resolution body. It is elected for two years at the GA and is composed of 5 members. Action by the AC is taken only upon request by EC members of other bodies of FYEG. They are elected for two years by the GA.
Working groups
The Working groups are a place for our activists to meet, debate topics and develop campaigns and ideas. They are in charge of building and communicating positions internally and externally with the approval of the EC. Each working group consist of at least 5 people from 5 different MOs.
Office staff
The office staff has at least one Secretary General and a Project Assistant. The Sec Gen is responsible of the daily management of FYEG regarding finances, co-ordination of the office, fund-raising, representation, reporting, networking and legal representation. The Project Assistant is in charge of project management, organisation of FYEG events and giving and administrative support to the SecGen.
