The European Polio Union (EPU) was officially founded in March, 2007mainly working on behalf of people in Europe with Post Polio Syndrome (PPS). This followed an informal discussion at the meeting in Luxembourg led by Johan Bijttebier, Margret Embry, and Dr. Thomas Lehmann. Guidelines, Mems, and Arts and objectives were decided. Then in 2009, the EPU was officially registered in Belgium and took on a structured administrative approach with a Board of Directors, a proper postal address, a bank account, and regular meetings with English as the official language.
The first official Annual General Meetings took place Rheinsberg in 2008; the next ones took place in:
- – 2009 Lille, France,
- 2010 Malcesine, Italy,
- 2011 Copenhagen, Denmark,
- 2012 Janske Lazne, Czechia,
- 2013 Tullamore, Ireland,
- 2014 Amsterdam, Netherlands,
- 2015 London, UK,
- 2016 Piestany, Slovakia,
- 2017 Lobbach, Germany,
- 2018 Rheinsberg, Germany,
- 2019 Lobbach, Germany,
- 2020 Gaiker in Vitoria, Spain, canceled due to Covid,
- 2021 the AGM was by Zoom,
- 2022 Prague, Czechia,
- 2023 Nancy, France,
- 2024 Budapest, Hungary.