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[…] The Bureaux of the Governing Board and the CDEJ set up in December 1998 a working group composed of non governmental and CDEJ representatives whose task was to study the feasibility of the setting-up of such a network. This group met in February this year and followed the conclusions of the Vilnius Seminar on «the criteria and objectives of a network of European youth centres» in order to carry out its work. Organised in January 1999, at the initiative of the Lithuanian authorities, in the framework of co-operation of the States of the Baltic Sea region, this Seminar led to the definition of a certain number of criteria which could apply to the functioning of the network and its members, as well as the possible benefits for the participation in this network:

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5th Conference of European Ministers responsible for Youth (Bucharest, 27-29 April 1998)

[…] The Swiss representative expressed support for the idea of developing the network of decentralised centres as recommended by the Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth in Vienna in 1993. […]

FINAL DECLARATION

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4th Conference of European Ministers responsible for youth (Vienna, 13-15 April 1993)

[…] In her opening address, Mrs Lalumiere, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, […] appealed to the Ministers present to make an added financial effort in favour of youth policies, despite the difficult economic situation, since the task was a very important one: helping young people to integrate in Europe. The extra effort could serve to develop and carry out several ideas such as setting up a second Centre, a network of decentralised centres and even a European Youth Office.

DECLARATION OF MINISTERS: “YOUNG PEOPLE IN GREATER EUROPE”

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[…] The Governing Board […] recommends that the Committee of Ministers implement a global integrated and long-term training policy aiming to promote the development of democratic and pluralistic structures based on the participation of young europeans in the life of society and, to this end: […] 2. promotes the creation or the development of a network of national and regional youth centres; this network will focus on co-operation and the mutual exchange of information, and in particular with the European Youth Centres in order to apply and reinforce the principles and action on which these Centres are built and operate;

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In the final document of their 3rd Conference (Lisbon, 20-21 September 1990), the European Ministers responsible for Youth recommended the Committee of Ministers: “to charge the Governing Board of the EYC and EYF in collaboration with the CDEJ to carry out, on the basis of the fundamental principles of the Council of Europe’s youth policy, a feasibility study on the creation of a second European Youth Centre in a Central or East European country“. When adopting the Intergovernmental Programme of Activities for 1991 (449th meeting of the Deputies, November – December 1990, item 26, part 1) the Deputies broadened the scope of the feasibility study to include “means of extending training and co-operation in the youth field”.

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