Policy paper on the future of EU youth policy development
This policy paper, based on the experiences of youth organisations across Europe, identifies the major challenges and obstacles of the Open Method of Coordination in the youth field, analyses them and then proposes new methods of implementing and monitoring this specific process and also more generally, European youth policy development in the EU.
Read the policy paper adopted at the Council of Members, Prato, Italy, 28-29 April 2006.
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