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"Mr President, Commission Representative, Mrs Angelilli commented that we are just speaking of the euro, although there are many other important issues here. I would like to say to her that the birth of the euro is a very important thing for us young people too.
The Community’s Youth Action programme is one of the most important programmes targeted at the citizens of the European Union. It has been a success both in the operational sense and with regard to its publicity value. Although Parliament also decides the framework and main policies of the programme, it is important to remember that the successful implementation of programmes can only be carried out at national level. In the implementation of the Youth programme the Member States must allow for sufficient leeway and provide the necessary support.
The Youth programme, despite its success, is not ready or complete. The programme’s application procedure has to be further clarified and be made more user-friendly, which is what has already been said here. The problems of youth programmes often originate in the fact that there is an attempt to reach as large a target group as possible with different sector programmes. In this way we try to make it possible for people who are as young as possible to take advantage of the programmes. Experience, however, has shown that a target group that is too heterogeneous increases the amount of administrative work required to assess applications and might even adversely affect the chances of certain special groups to use the programmes.
Youth programme evaluation must clearly be improved. We have to make more use of the ideas of national players in the implementation of programmes. Programme evaluation should also pay attention to the programme’s cost-effectiveness. For example, the group meeting sector programme is considerably cheaper than the European voluntary service and, furthermore, a greater number of young people derive benefit from the group meeting.
Sport has been included as an added dimension to the Youth programme. This is an important step forward. Before the programme is implemented, we must, however, be clear about what sort of sports the Youth programme funds may be spent on. Funds must be targeted mainly at emphasising the educational dimension of sport. Programme resources can easily be used up in mere sporting events unless restrictions are imposed."@en1
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