Youth for Europe: establishment of the 3rd European programme for the development of exchanges 1995-1999

The third phase of the "Youth for Europe" programme could now be launched. The report drawn up by Mrs FONTAINE (PPE, F) and adopted by the Committee on Culture gave the green light to implementation of phase III, which extended over five years and was allocated financial resources totalling ECU 157 million. The aim was to make the various actions more coherent and transparent by grouping them together under a single framework. An internal breakdown was now set out within the framework of 5 main actions, to which were added the Community accompanying measures: Action A : intra-Community activities directly involving young people (51% of the budget) Action B : youth workers' activities (7.9%) Action C : cooperation between Member States' structures (2.2%) Action D : exchanges with third countries (27.6%) Action E : information for young people and youth research (5.2%) Community accompanying measures (6.2 %) �