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"Mrs Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, you rightly point out that a whole range of policy areas concern young people. Thank you for doing so. Youth policy is cross-sectoral by its nature. It is precisely the purpose of the European Youth Pact that the European Council adopted in 2005 to mainstream the dimension of youth into various policies, in line with the Lisbon Strategy.
Our objectives are simple, namely to improve the educational potential in Europe, training, youth mobility and the vocational integration and social inclusion of young people. We know that together we must make that pact even more effective and that we need concrete results. To help us achieve that, as from 2009 the Commission will be drafting a three-yearly report on youth. That report will provide an in-depth analysis of the situation of young people in Europe and thereby help us to highlight their concerns.
The EU certainly has major responsibilities here, but today, under the Treaties, Member State action is even more vital and we must ensure that within the EU we focus on best practice, whether at national, local or regional level. We must promote all forms of synergy between the actors involved, such as enterprises, schools, associations, employment bodies, youth workers, researchers, families and also the social partners. In that context, the Presidency of the Council is particularly concerned with promoting cross-border mobility for young people. This issue will come up at the Council of 20 and 21 November, which will consider the report on mobility by a high-level group of experts headed by Mrs Maria João Rodriguez. We want to see Erasmus, which has proved a great success, expanded. We know that cannot be done overnight, but we hope Erasmus will become more democratic, more broadly based.
We also want to promote Leonardo-type apprenticeship programmes at European level. Under the French Presidency we are looking to organise a major event focusing on developing the mobility of apprentices. Similarly, under the French Presidency we want to make the health of young people one of our youth policy priorities, to obtain a better idea of health issues specific to young people, whether relating to hygiene or to combating addiction – to tobacco, alcohol and, of course, drugs.
In 2009, the Council will play an active part in the general process of evaluating European cooperation in the field of youth. Given that this will be a long-term process, it is important to ensure continuity of action between the various presidencies, which is why we have worked with the presidencies to come, the Czech and Swedish Presidencies, to ensure the continuity of this policy that is so crucial to the next generation of Europeans."@en1
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