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Resolution 1630 (2008)
Refreshing the youth agenda of the Council of Europe
1. The Parliamentary Assembly has
been a long-standing and active partner in the promotion of youth policies
and youth activity in the Council of Europe.
2. A key element has been encouragement of the active participation
of young people in civil and institutional life. This is one of
the objectives of the European Youth Centres set up in Strasbourg
and Budapest. It should be part of youth policy at European, national
and local levels.
3. In the context of refreshing the youth agenda of the Council
of Europe, the Assembly:
3.1. reasserts
the possibility for its committees and sub-committees to meet in
the European Youth Centre in Budapest as in Order No. 517 (1996)
on the European Youth Centre in Budapest, and take advantage of
the facilities offered now by the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg;
3.2. reiterates its request to its political groups to associate
their respective political youth organisations in Assembly activities;
3.3. calls on its members, and in particular its younger members,
to assume a more active role in championing the views of young people
in Assembly debates and in committing themselves personally to involvement
in the youth activities of the Council of Europe;
3.4. decides to hold round tables and hearings with youth representatives
and young political leaders on subjects of common interest and seek
in general the more open involvement of young people in its meetings,
missions, and debates;
3.5. urges its members to convey to their own constituencies
and their own parliaments awareness of the need to involve young
people in discussion of current issues along the lines of the Revised
European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and
Regional Life.
4. The Assembly also calls on young people in general and on
youth organisations in particular to insist on the possibilities
that exist for interaction with the Council of Europe and in particular
with the Parliamentary Assembly.