WAGGGS-Europe Region

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The Europe Region WAGGGS is the regional office of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, which supports Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting in Europe, including the former Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine, but inclusive of Israel, though technically not part of Europe, for cultural reasons.

All the formerly communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have developed or are developing Guiding in the wake of the renaissance in the region. These include Albania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the successor states to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Baltic nations independent of the former Soviet Union. This region is the counterpart of the European Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The Europe Region WAGGGS has strong connections to the European Region]] of WOSM. Both maintained a joined office in Brussels for some years and published a monthly newsletter called Eurofax. Currently the two regions publish 'europak' monthly at http;//www.europak-online.net

The Europe Office is currently located at Avenue de la Porte de Hal, 38 B1060 Brussels, Belgium. The regional website is http://www.europe.wagggsworld.org

Jurisdiction of the WAGGGS-Europe Region; Andorra, with no Guiding organization, and those outside the Region, are in grey

There is no WAGGGS Region corresponding to the World Organization of the Scout Movement Eurasian Region; postSoviet nations are divided between the WAGGGS-Europe Region and the WAGGGS-Asia Pacific Region.