The European Youth Campaign (EYC) - active in the 1950s - was an organization funded by the American Committee on United Europe

American Committee on United Europe

The American Committee on United Europe , founded in 1948, was an American organization which sought to counter the Communist threat in Europe by promoting European political integration...

 (a CIA front), and was created mainly as a response to the Comintern

Comintern

The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...

 in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

. Note that EYC is not connected to the Young European Movement which is part of the European Movement

European Movement

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The EYC worked to promote a pro-European attitude amongst European youth

Western Europe

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, and conducted "a massive propaganda campaign of conferences and exhibitions, cinema shows, radio broadcasts and a large array of publications".