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On the other hand the Study Session can be seen as one of the products of the Wider Europe Initiative launched by the European Commission. George Sorose has rightly expressed an opinion that even though the initiative looks great on paper the plan will be doomed to obscurity if it is allowed to moulder in the European bureaucracy.
Plausibly one of the ways to escape such unfortunate destiny is to give European youth without regard for nation, race and borders – most dynamic and vibrant group on the continent opportunities to influence European policy making via participation in preparation of major European projects, initiatives in legislation process.
Youth policy is of course about inclusion and access, where they are assured, policies function, where this is not the case, they don’t. There are many reasons from armed conflicts to political and economic system crises that may explain short and medium term unbearable differences within the social situations and the life prospects of young people in Europe. This is however is not a reason to leave behind key values of European society such as social justice and equality of opportunity.
However no solution will come out of the blue. Next to political and social action young people will have to take their share of the effort needed to live in a better world.
Participation of two Ukrainian youth leaders representing respectively Liberal-Democratic Party of Ukraine (Irpin organization) and the Union of Hungarian Youth in Ukraine (Uzhgorod) – Olexiy Kuzmenko and Robert Casso in this event is but a vindication of the fastest growing engagement of Ukrainian youth into European affairs and likewise of strong determination to overcome obstacles on our way to Democracy.
Let’s put aside the weighing past to start Ukraine anew!
Irpin (City inKyivska oblast) Organization of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Ukraine delegated its representative to the Study Session with the idea of sharing experiences with European fellow youth-workers and rapprochement with European youth organization working in the fields of human rights, cultural exchange and conflict prevention and other areas just as important for contemporary Ukraine.
Definitely the Study session was good in reformatting the issue of minority inclusion bringing a group of people from minority and majority background from all over Europe to talk and work with each other. Te subject was critically approached, turned upside down and participants started focusing on the benefits of truly multicultural team work. I believe that knowing these benefits and knowing how to increase them is the first step towards true inclusion.
I also entertain myself with a thought that young people must play a special role in the process of establishment of public, democratic state in Ukraine. I am deeply assured that due to timely support of well-thought-out initiatives outgoing from young Ukrainian people, Ukrainian government once it got rid of discriminatory attitudes would be able to count on active involvement of the most potent forces of the society into state building.
And such government is yet to come.
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Olexi
Ukrainian student, journalist and a planetary citizen. I invite you to take a look at Central's Europe largest state- Ukraine through Olexi-tinted spectacles. Somewhat approaching unbiased subjectivity :)
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