European voluntary service for young people: Community action programme 1998-2002

The rapporteur, Mrs Fontaine, invited Parliament to approve the common draft so that the European Voluntary Service could become operational as soon as possible, while hoping that the programme’s success in the coming months would prise open the budgetary corset in which the Council had stuffed it. While understanding Parliament’s disappointment, Commissioner Bangemann congratulated the successful conclusion of the conciliation procedure and hoped that this programme would develop its own impetus.