Austria’s Minister for Generations Ursula Haubner today met the chair of the European Parliament Culture and Education Committee Nikolaos Sifunakis in the run-up to the committee meeting. They agreed on the need to continue the joint work to raise awareness of youth issues.
“Young people must be offered long-term prospects for a career and their place in society,” Council President Haubner subsequently told the committee.
In this context, she stressed the role of integration and mobility in ensuring that young people became actively involved, as this was the only way to ensure a new quality of future for young people.
Haubner also intends to prioritise these issues at the informal Youth Ministers conference in Bad Ischl. The Youth Ministers must then take responsibility for coordinating the work at national level, according to Haubner, who drew particular attention to the needs of people with disabilities.
The European Union had to take firm action to combat poverty and social exclusion of children and young people.
Families, social services and employment are important in preventing poverty, which is why priorities need to be set in the area of reconciling family life and work.
“The work at European level with all partners must be stepped up. It is important to get the necessary budgetary resources made available for youth issues”, Haubner concluded.
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