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

Parliament amended the Council's common position with 8 amendments aimed at: - enabling the children of immigrants to discover the culture of their country of origin; - opening the programme to young nationals of Cyprus and Malta as well as the associated countries of Central and Eastern Europe; - removing all estimates of the financial amounts required; - fixing 1 January 1995 as the date of entry into force of the five-year programme; - introducing mechanisms to make the programme more flexible in order to facilitate the adaptation of the programme to the needs of particularly disadvantaged young people; - ensuring that the Commission submitted to Parliament and the Council a draft of the implementing measures to be taken and took account of the priorities established by the other institutions by amending its draft if necessary; - stipulating that support for the effective establishment of cooperation partnership schemes or networks should promote the development of mobility between young people from different groups and different regions; - increasingly using the media to publicise and promote the programme's objectives and results. �