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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'.

Meeting in Luxembourg on 9 June, European labour ministers called on the Commission and national governments to accelerate measures to increase the proportion of people aged 24 and under who hold a regular job. 

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.

The 27 EU directors-general for youth, MEPs and young people alike are calling for urgent changes in youth, education and economic policies as every fifth young European lives on the poverty line and youth unemployment has reached 38%.

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.

The EU youth programme 2007-2013 aims to promote young people's active European citizenship.

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.

Fighting unemployment and the fear of losing jobs to other EU countries are two of young EU citizens' chief concerns as European youth takes centre stage during European Youth Week.

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

A World Health Organisation (WHO) report displays a widening East-West gap in children's health and identifies poverty and socioeconomic inequality as the greatest threats to children's health in Europe.

'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.

Young Europeans will have until the end of 2005 to put forward their ideas on the European Youth Pact via the internet. The Commission has put forward its proposals in a communication on the pact and youth policy in general. 

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.

Faced with an increasingly ageing population, heads of state and government at a summit on 22-23 March agreed a European Youth Pact that includes "child-friendly policies" and aims to take youth policy into account across different policy areas.

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.

Representatives of European youth, selected by Generation Europe, gathered in Brussels this weekend (from 29 November to 2 December) to conclude their online and live debates of CSR issues. They granted the "Shaping the Future Award" to MOZAL (Mozambique Aluminium) for its project "Total Control of the Epidemic", a project to counter the AIDS epidemic.