The campaign has united some of the European Union's poorest regions, including Merseyside and west Wales. They want to ensure the addition of Eastern European nations to the union will not mean they lose existing EU grants, which have contributed more than 69m to UK youth projects since 2000.
Aled Thomas, European policy officer at the Welsh Local Government Association, said: "The fear is that our regions will look more prosperous due to the EU's enlargement, although the problems have not disappeared."
Youth projects that have benefited from the EU's Objective 1 grants, often distributed under the guise of the European Social Fund (ESF), are also concerned.
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