Such celebration and sense of direction on the European front is to be welcomed. It is therefore sad that Peter Lauritzen is not there to witness it. Lauritzen died at the end of May but one of his many legacies was to construct, at the heart of youth policy in Europe, the critical themes of 'access and inclusion'. He felt that the debate could rove around many things and sometimes disappear into protracted detailed consideration: at the forefront, he maintained, there needed to be attention to 'inclusion' (the rights of minorities and the value of diversity) and no full inclusion was possible without young people being aware of their access rights and being capable of making use of their access routes.
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