On the very first day, it opened a conference of young people, policymakers and researchers from across Europe, symbolically illustrating the commitment of Finland to its young people. It has a remarkably successful economy and one of the highest staying-on rates in education in the world. It has 3,400 full-time youth workers, a strong youth research tradition and a youth service budget of EUR190m. Proportionate to population, this resource is three times that of the UK's.
The conference took stock of youth policy in the European Union. The wider "Youth in Action" programme will be launched in 2007 and run to 2013. The reports made by national governments on the themes identified in the EU's white paper of 2001 are analysed and the European Commission is about to make proposals on the first two of these - "participation" and "information".
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