European Young Conservatives
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The European Young Conservatives is a grouping of youth wings of right of center political parties, usually with a Eurosceptic bias.
Founded by the former national chairman of the UK's Young Conservatives, Andrew Rosindell, following a split in the center-right Democrat Youth Community of Europe (DEMYC) which split into two factions, the main one following a broadly Christian Democratic philosophy and the smaller one, led by Rosindell following a broadly Conservative philosophy. Two crucial points of disagreement were the scope of free market reforms and the desireability of a federal Europe.
The group attracted controversy by affiliating with Azione Giovani, the youth wing of the hardline conservative and formerly fascist Italian party Alleanza Nazionale. The Conservative MP Bill Cash addressed a European Young Conservatives meeting in 1998 in Italy hosted by Azione Giovani.