Tag: youth

To reduce youth unemployment, training and education might not be enough, turning young people into entrepreneurs is the solution, Peter Matjašič, president of the European Youth Forum, told EurActiv in an interview. 

The EU should reduce its carbon emissions by 30% by 2020 and complete its transition to a low-carbon economy, argue young environmental campaigners from 'Push Europe', demanding an inheritance that is "clean, safe and equitable".

Today's European young people are "the precarious generation" suffering from the crisis of the welfare state, "passively boomeranging back to their parents' homes once they have run out of options and motivation," write the European Policy Centre's Joana Cruz and Judith Poultney ahead of the launch today (9 July) of a new EPC publication, 'Young Voices Europe'.

An EU project on the health of European adolescents reveals that merely 15% of young people eat enough fruit and vegetables, while half of all teenagers get more than a third of their daily energy intake from fat.

EU officials and young Europeans get together for a debate to launch the 'in transit' project on the occasion of the Union's 50th anniversary.

A youth summit in Rome is the centrepiece of the EU’s ‘youth package’ to celebrate the signing of the Rome Treaties 50 years ago.

EU education ministers have agreed on all the non-budgetary aspects of the Commission’s proposed lifelong learning programme 2007-13.

'Youth in Action' rapporteur Lizzy Gröner is pushing for a budget of 1,128m euro (the Commission proposed 915m euro) and wants European Youth Week to be an established part of European youth policy.

Creating an international youth organisation internet database to promote youth participation was one of the specific outcomes of European Student Forum AEGEE's youth & globalisation project.

EU education ministers want the European Council to include a European Youth Pact as part of their mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy. Meanwhile a platform for the elderly wants a greater EU emphasis on adult mobility.