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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as society develops, it is advisable to regularly readjust the priorities of European policy for young people.
The adoption of the European Youth Pact by the Heads of State or Government on 22 and 23 March 2005 is a development of particular importance for this sector. That is because, for the first time, common lines of action are being defined for all the Member States in important fields of European policy, such as employment and education.
The objective of this pact is to improve education, training, mobility, professional assimilation and the social integration of the young people of the European Union. Consequently, it is a basic precondition to safeguarding constant and viable development in Europe, given that young people are the future manpower and the future source of research capabilities, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Within this framework, it is necessary to apply the European Youth Pact, which is mandatory for the Member States, meaning that the Commission has to be informed of progress in the application of the pact within the framework of their annual reports to the European Commission on progress being made in national programmes to reform the Lisbon Strategy.
The Member States should also bear in mind that 17.9% of unemployed are young people under 25 years of age. Consequently, the society of knowledge is the key to the success of Lisbon. Another proposal which would make it easier to achieve the Lisbon objectives is the convergence of the education systems of the 25. In this way, the quality of European education could be guaranteed and the Member States could plan more cohesive policies, in order to improve their performance in relation to the Lisbon objectives.
In addition, reducing the number of young people who leave school early and widening access to higher education are fundamental objectives which should be achieved by 2010.
To close, improving the foreign language skills of young people is an important requirement for the young people of Europe and contributes to the society of knowledge."@en1
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