With the aim of getting young people more involved in EU affairs, MEPs launched, on 11 February, the first-ever Youth Intergroup in the European Parliament.
Set up at the initiative of Damien Abad (EPP, France), Ramona Manescu (ALDE, Romania), Eider Gardiazabal (S&D, Spain) and Jean Lambert (Greens-EFA, UK), the intergroup has the specific goals of encouraging active youth citizenship by promoting exchanges between the different players and strengthening youth policy through follow-up of initiatives and programmes in progress.
The intergroup will also implement new initiatives and ambitions in support of youth at EU level, eg the creation of an apprenticeship Erasmus programme. “We should not limit ourselves to a policy for youth but develop a policy with young people,” commented Abad.
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