Young people have been the target for specific EU policies, like the flagship programme Erasmus, but they also proactively voiced their idea of Europe through youth associations and movements, from the outset of the European integration process. How children and young people perceive the European space is a measure of the impact of European policies, as well as a blueprint for the Europe of the future.
Georges Rencki (FR)
European Commission official 1958-1992. HAEU, GR 149
Youth for a federal Europe
The Loreley Camp was one of the many initiatives organised by young Europeans in the early 1950s.
Paolo Clarotti (IT)
European Commission official 1959-1996. HAEU, INT 124
Youth Policy in the EU
The Erasmus, Socrates and Leonardo programmes, launched by the European Commission between the 1980s and the 1990s, aimed to promote innovation, training, co-operation and mobility in education.
Celebrations organised by the European Union on reaching the landmark of one million ERASMUS students
© European Communities 1992 – Source: EC – Photo: Christian Lambiotte
Bulletin of the European Youth Forum
HAEU, JD 981
Excerpt of speech by Jacques Delors
Excerpt of speech by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, during the conference organised by Le Monde, together with the EEC and the Université de la Sorbonne, 2 March 1988, on “Education at the Heart of the European Project”. HAEU, JD 72
Manuel Marín González (ES)
Vice-president of the European Commission 1986-1999. HAEU, INT 631
How the EU is perceived by young people
Drawings by primary and secondary students in the context of the workshops carried out by the HAEU educational programme. The topics discussed were: the individual perspective on the European Union, the free movement of people, and the Schuman Declaration.
Solidarity
“[Europe] will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity”
Citizenship
“This proposal will lead to the realization of the first concrete foundation of a European federation”
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