EN Official Journal of the European Union CE 295/21

Tuesday 2 September 2008

Devoting more attention to youth empowerment in EU policies

P6_TA(2008)0390

Declaration of the European Parliament on devoting more attention to youth empowerment in EU policies

2009/C 295 E/06

The European Parliament,

having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas, the Commission in its White Paper ‘A new impetus for European youth’ (COM(2001)0681), which Parliament examined in its resolution of 14 May 2002 (1), adopted the objective of devoting more attention to young people in other policy fields, especially education and lifelong learning, employment, social integration, health, youth autonomy, mobility, fundamental rights and non-discrimination,

B. whereas the European Council of 22-23 March 2005 adopted a ‘European Youth Pact’ as one of the instruments contributing to the Lisbon objectives, and renewed its commitment in March 2008, insisting on the need to invest in youth now and in the future,

C. whereas the Commission reflected the need for the mainstreaming of youth issues in its Communication of 5 September 2007 on ‘Promoting young people's full participation in education, employment and society’ (COM(2007)0498),

D. whereas it adopted its resolutions of 19 June 2007 on a regulatory framework for measures enabling young women in the European Union to combine family life with a period of studies (2) and of 21 February 2008 on the demographic future of Europe (3), thus highlighting the need to take greater account of youth,

1. Calls on the Commission, when preparing legislative proposals, to consider and incorporate the impact on youth and the results of the structured dialogue with youth organisations, in particular in the policy fields referred to in recital A;

2. Calls on the Member States to focus on youth when implementing the Lisbon national reform programmes and to take youth into account in the relevant policy fields;

3. Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Council, the Commission and the European Youth Forum.

List of signatories

Adamos Adamou, Vincenzo Aita, Gabriele Albertini, Alexander Alvaro, Jan Andersson, Georgs Andrejevs, Alfonso Andria, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Emmanouil Angelakas, Roberta Angelilli, Kader Arif, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Francisco Assis, John Attard-Montalto, Elspeth Attwooll, Jean-Pierre Audy, Margrete Auken, Liam Aylward, Pilar Ayuso, Peter Baco, Maria Badía i Cutchet, Mariela Velichkova Baeva, Enrique Barón Crespo, Alessandro Battilocchio, Katerina Batzeli, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Zsolt László Becsey, Ivo Belet, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Monika Beňová, Giovanni Berlinguer, Thijs Berman, Šarūnas Birutis, Sebastian Valentin Bodu, Herbert Bösch, Guy Bono, Victor Boștinaru, Bernadette Bourzai, John Bowis, Sharon Bowles, Emine Bozkurt, Iles Braghetto, Mihael Brejc, Frieda Brepoels, Jan Březina, André Brie, Danutė Budreikaitė, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, Wolfgang Bulfon, Udo Bullmann, Ieke van den Burg, Colm Burke, Niels Busk, Cristian Silviu Bușoi, Philippe Busquin, Simon Busuttil, Jerzy Buzek, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, David Casa, Paulo Casaca, Michael Cashman, Carlo Casini, Giuseppe Castiglione, Jean-Marie Cavada, Alejandro Cercas, Ole Christensen, Luigi Cocilovo, Carlos Coelho, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Richard Corbett, Dorette Corbey, Giovanna Corda, Titus Corlățean, Thierry Cornillet, Jean Louis Cottigny, Michael Cramer, Jan Cremers, Gabriela Crețu, Brian Crowley, Magor Imre Csibi, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Daniel Dăianu, Joseph Daul, Dragoș Florin David, Chris Davies, Antonio De Blasio, Bairbre de Brún, Arūnas Degutis, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Panayiotis Demetriou, Marie-Hélène Descamps, Albert Deß, Christine De Veyrac, Mia De Vits, Jolanta Dičkutė, Alexandra Dobolyi, Beniamino Donnici, Bert Doorn, Brigitte Douay, Avril Doyle, Mojca Drčar Murko, Petr Duchoň, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Constantin Dumitriu, Michl Ebner, Lena Ek, Saïd El Khadraoui, Maria da Assunção Esteves, Edite Estrela, Harald Ettl, Jill Evans, Göran Färm, Richard Falbr, Carlo Fatuzzo, Claudio Fava, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Francesco Ferrari, Elisa Ferreira, Ilda Figueiredo, Petru Filip, Věra Flasarová, Alessandro Foglietta, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Nicole Fontaine, Glyn Ford, Brigitte Fouré, Janelly Fourtou, Juan Fraile Cantón, Armando França, Monica Frassoni, Duarte Freitas, Milan Gaľa, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Iratxe García Pérez, Patrick Gaubert, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Eugenijus Gentvilas, Georgios Georgiou, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Claire Gibault, Ioannis Gklavakis, Ana Maria Gomes, Donata Gottardi, Vasco Graça Moura, Martí Grau i Segú, Louis Grech, Nathalie Griesbeck, Lissy Gröner, Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Matthias Groote, Mathieu Grosch, Françoise Grossetête, Lilli Gruber, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, Ambroise Guellec, Pedro Guerreiro, Zita Gurmai, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Fiona Hall, David Hammerstein, Benoît Hamon, Małgorzata Handzlik, Marian Harkin, Rebecca Harms, Joel Hasse Ferreira, Satu Hassi, Anna Hedh, Gyula Hegyi, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Jim Higgins, Jens Holm, Mary Honeyball, Milan Horáček, Stephen Hughes, Alain Hutchinson, Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova, Sophia in 't Veld, Ville Itälä, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Lily Jacobs, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Anne E. Jensen, Dan Jørgensen, Pierre Jonckheer, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Jelko Kacin, Filip Kaczmarek, Gisela Kallenbach, Othmar Karas, Ioannis Kasoulides, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Metin Kazak, Tunne Kelam, Glenys Kinnock, Ewa Klamt, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Jaromír Kohlíček, Maria Eleni Koppa, Miloš Koterec, Sergej Kozlík, Guntars Krasts, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, Jan Jerzy Kułakowski, Sepp Kusstatscher, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Joost Lagendijk, André Laignel, Alain Lamassoure, Jean Lambert, Vytautas Landsbergis, Esther De Lange, Anne Laperrouze, Henrik Lax, Johannes Lebech, Stéphane Le Foll, Roselyne Lefrançois, Bernard Lehideux, Lasse Lehtinen, Jörg Leichtfried, Jo Leinen, Marcin Libicki, Eva Lichtenberger, Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, Alain Lipietz, Pia Elda Locatelli, Caroline Lucas, Sarah Ludford, Florencio Luque Aguilar, Elizabeth Lynne, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Jules Maaten, Linda McAvan, Arlene McCarthy, Mary Lou McDonald, Mairead McGuinness, Edward McMillan-Scott, Jamila Madeira, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Vladimír Maňka, Mario Mantovani, Catiuscia Marini, Helmuth Markov, Sérgio Marques, Maria Martens, David Martin, Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Marios Matsakis, Yiannakis Matsis, Manolis Mavrommatis, Manuel Medina Ortega, Erik Meijer, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Marianne Mikko, Miroslav Mikolášik, Claude Moraes, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Luisa Morgantini, Elisabeth Morin, Roberto Musacchio, Joseph Muscat, Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci, Riitta Myller, Pasqualina Napoletano, Robert Navarro, Cătălin-Ioan Nechifor, Catherine Neris, Angelika Niebler, Ljudmila Novak, Raimon Obiols i Germà, Vural Öger, Jan Olbrycht, Seán Ó Neachtain, Gérard Onesta, Dumitru Oprea, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, Siiri Oviir, Borut Pahor, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Vladko Todorov Panayotov, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Atanas Paparizov, Georgios Papastamkos, Neil Parish, Ioan Mircea Pașcu, Aldo Patriciello, Vincent Peillon, Maria Petre, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Rihards Pīks, João de Deus Pinheiro, Józef Pinior, Umberto Pirilli, Hubert Pirker, Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski, Gianni Pittella, Francisca Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Zita Pleštinská, Anni Podimata, Samuli Pohjamo, Bernard Poignant, José Javier Pomés Ruiz, Mihaela Popa, Nicolae Vlad Popa, Miguel Portas, Christa Prets, Pierre Pribetich, Vittorio Prodi, John Purvis, Luís Queiró, Reinhard Rack, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva, Miloslav Ransdorf, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Karin Resetarits, José Ribeiro e Castro, Teresa Riera Madurell, Frédérique Ries, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Maria Robsahm, Bogusław Rogalski, Zuzana Roithová, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, Libor Rouček, Paul Rübig, Heide Rühle, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Eoin Ryan, Tokia Saïfi, Aloyzas Sakalas, Katrin Saks, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Manuel António dos Santos, Sebastiano Sanzarello, Salvador Domingo Sanz Palacio, Amalia Sartori, Gilles Savary, Toomas Savi, Luciana Sbarbati, Christel Schaldemose, Agnes Schierhuber, Carl Schlyter, Frithjof Schmidt, Pál Schmitt, Elisabeth Schroedter, Inger Segelström, Adrian Severin, José Albino Silva Peneda, Brian Simpson, Csaba Sógor, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Bogusław Sonik, María Sornosa Martínez, Sérgio Sousa Pinto, Jean Spautz, Bart Staes, Grażyna Staniszewska, Gabriele Stauner, Petya Stavreva, Dirk Sterckx, Catherine Stihler, Ulrich Stockmann, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Dimitar Stoyanov, Daniel Strož, Margie Sudre, Eva-Britt Svensson, Hannes Swoboda, József Szájer, István Szent-Iványi, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Antonio Tajani, Hannu Takkula, Andres Tarand, Britta Thomsen, Marianne Thyssen, Silvia-Adriana Țicău, Gary Titley, Patrizia Toia, László Tőkés, Ewa Tomaszewska, Witold Tomczak, Jacques Toubon, Antonios Trakatellis, Catherine Trautmann, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Claude Turmes, Evangelia Tzampazi, Feleknas Uca, Vladimir Urutchev, Nikolaos Vakalis, Johan Van Hecke, Anne Van Lancker, Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Donato Tommaso Veraldi, Bernadette Vergnaud, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Kristian Vigenin, Oldřich Vlasák, Dominique Vlasto, Johannes Voggenhuber, Sahra Wagenknecht, Graham Watson, Henri Weber, Renate Weber, Åsa Westlund, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Anders Wijkman, Glenis Willmott, Iuliu Winkler, Janusz Wojciechowski, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Francis Wurtz, Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Anna Záborská, Zbigniew Zaleski, Mauro Zani, Tatjana Ždanoka, Dushana Zdravkova, Marian Zlotea, Jaroslav Zvěřina, Tadeusz Zwiefka

(1) OJ C 180 E, 31.7.2003, p. 145.

(2) OJ C 146 E, 12.6.2008, p. 112.

(3) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2008)0066.