Background
The European Christian Political Youth Network was established in July 2004 in Kortenberg (Belgium) by PerspectivE, Youth of the Christian Union (Netherlands) and other European Christian political youth organisations, such as the Christian Peoples Alliance Youth (United Kingdom). The founding of ECPYN was one of the results of the International Summer School where young people from all over Europe participated.
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