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

Parliament approved the Commission proposal subject to 33 amendments, which aimed to: - enhance the feeling of European citizenship among young people; - make the procedures more flexible to facilitate access to the programmes for very disadvantaged young people; - increase cooperation between Member States, the Community and youth organisations; - apply the provisions set out in this directive to the management method of the national agencies; - extend the activities intended for socio-educational youth workers to persons in positions of responsibility in youth organisations; - enlarge the advisory committee; - open up the programme to Cyprus and Malta and to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe that had concluded association agreements with the Union. �