The European Youth Forum Shadow Report on the implementation of the White Paper is a key tool for our advocacy work for effective, cross-sectoral youth policy in Europe that is based on the knowledge of youth organisations and the reality of European young people.

This process of shadow reporting is crucial for the European Youth Forum and its member organisations as it provides the opportunity to express concerns about the implementation of the common objectives to which Member States committed themselves. It is also important to demonstrate the involvement of National Youth Councils and youth organisations in the political process on youth policy. This shadow report, combined with a study that the European Youth Forum will undertake on the evaluation of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) process, is also a way to take a step forward and to suggest new proposals.

A copy of the YFJ Shadow Report, gathering the contributions of National Youth Councils and analysing the implementation at European level, can be downloaded here.

The fully contributions of National Youth Councils:

Contribution of LNU National Youth Council of Norway, as they are not members of EU the aim of this report is to bring experiences from Norway back to YFJ: