First NA Meeting in Europe at 97th General Hospital US Air Base Frankfurt (Main) in Germany (every Friday night). An American therapist of the US army, which is at this time a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and aware of the importance of identification among drug addicts, invited two AA members from Frankfurt, who have consumed illegal drugs, to an NA meeting of soldiers called the “Young Love Group”.

A small group of Irish members traveled to London to attend a service meeting and this contact led to …

… the 1st European Service Conference which was held in Trinity College, Dublin, and was attended by members from the UK, Germany, and representatives from the World Service Office. This event developed into the European Service Conference of NA (ESCNA 1), which has been hosted in turn by different European communities. It was primarily a celebration of recovery, with some time set aside for informal reports to the floor from the attending communities. Some years later called the European Conference and Convention of NA (ECCNA).

The World Convention of Narcotics Anonymous was held for the first time in Europe in London at the Wembley Conference Court, with International Speakers, a Spiritual Brunch, and a Banquet.

At the Convention in Lisbon in 1990, a small group was formed by members from Belgium, France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK, to study the possible options for a European service structure. This was known as the European Study Group, which after the ECCNA 1991 in Rome became the European Resource Group and presented its findings to the Convention two years later in Brussels.

At that meeting in Brussels, the Delegates recognized that in asking the question they had become one of the answers and were, in fact, the “Large Representative Body” option that had been described by the European Resource Group. At this conference in Brussels, this body has evolved into the EUROPEAN DELEGATES MEETING (EDM), which meets twice yearly and is a forum of multilingual and multi-cultural NA communities inside and outside Europe, whose mission is to further their common welfare and unity, support their growth and help them fulfill their primary purpose of carrying the NA message to the still suffering addict.

The European Delegates meeting made a decision in February 2005 to apply to become an International non-profit association. The association was set up to help the body function legally as a Zonal Forum of Narcotics Anonymous within Europe.

At the Winter EDM in Malta, the EDM embarked on a new way of doing FD, by creating 6 Tasks to support Regions (Adriatic Region, Latvia, Czecho-Slovak Region, Italy, Iceland, Finland). We choose delegates who are located close to these Regions and they form a Task Team with a budget (Point Person/Budget Person). Delegates become a proactive part of EDM and FD.

EDM published the first issue of the EDM NEWS. The newsletter included information about EDM activities, events, and personal experiences, and was aimed at those who want to be informed about the current affairs of the EDM, now replaced by the EDM Blog.

EDM hosted the first European Service Learning Days (ESL) in Berlin. Members from 31 countries and 28 regions and communities come together for the first time in this way, to share experience, strength, and hope with each other.

Delegates made a decision to form a workgroup with the aim of bringing our message to the EU Parliament. These workgroup members were invited to attend a seminar in Brussels at the EU Parliament to show an NA presentation and share experiences with professionals

Creating the EDM Human Resource Pool (HRP) to identify NA members whose skills, talents, and experience support the FD vision.

Young Addicts in Recovery is an EDM Fellowship Development workgroup that started to notice and support recovery activities by young people: “It’s never too early to start recovering in the program of Narcotics Anonymous”.

At the World Service Conference, participants passed a number of motions related to zonal delegates. As a result, zones that include two or more communities or regions that are not seated at the WSC may send a zonal delegate (ZD) and alternate to the Conference to represent those regions or communities. The ZD is a funded, voting participant.

Due to the global pandemic, the summer meeting took place exclusively online for the first time. The annual ECCNA convention was canceled.

At the virtual Summer EDM we replaced the former PR workgroup with a Public Relations Committee and a PR Chair and PR Vice Chair were elected.

The first EDM Zonal Delegates, elected in 2019 at the Winter EDM in Spain (?), attending the World Service Conference 2022 (virtual because of the COVID-19 pandemic), for the first time as fully participating members of WSC.

The 39th European Conference and Convention of Narcotics Anonymous (ECCNA) in the Netherlands/Rotterdam.