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Challenges facing young people: enhancing cross-sectorial policy cooperation
EU Ministers see cooperation across policy areas as vital for addressing social and economic problems facing young people.
ACT
Council conclusions on enhancing cross-sectorial policy cooperation to effectively address socio-economic challenges facing young people (OJ C 172, 27.5.2015, pp. 3-7)
SUMMARY
WHAT DO THESE COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS DO?
They consider strategies to strengthen the cross-sectorial approach to youth issues so that policy-makers can react more effectively and promptly to problems, making the best use of all available EU funding and programmes in this field.
KEY POINTS
Cross-sectorial policy
To implement a wide-ranging cross-sectorial youth policy, EU countries need to:
They call on the European Commission to:
They urge EU countries and the Commission to:
Tailor-made approaches
Specially designed cross-sector approaches to programmes that tackle socio-economic challenges facing young people are needed.
EU countries are invited to:
The Commission is asked to facilitate EU level interaction between youth policy makers and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in implementing the Youth Guarantee.
Both the EU countries and the Commission are requested to:
Youth work
The EU Council requests that EU countries and the Commission highlight the value of youth work in tackling young people's challenges by:
More information:
RELATED ACTS
Resolution of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, of 20 May 2014 on a European Union Work Plan for Youth for 2014-2015 (OJ C 183, 14.6.2014, pp. 5-11)
last update 24.09.2015