 Now we're going to proceed with the presentation of an opinion, in an opinion exactly about homelessness, eradicating homelessness in the European Union, the local and regional perspective, its opinion unknown initiative. The rapporteur is our colleague Miko Altonen, and now I give him the floor for the presentation for five minutes. You have the floor, Miko. Kiitos puheenjohtaja. Arvoisat kollegat, olemme käyneet laadaa erittäin rikastuttavaa keskustelua komissarismitin ja financean puheenjohtaja Larssoni kanssa. Otan lausunnon pääkohtia, ei ole varmaan tarpeen tässä toistaan. Keskustelun aikana monet kollegat käyttivät puheenvuoroja, ja niistä kävi hyvin ilmi, että komitean jäsenet tuntevat tilanteen hyvin ja tuntevat tilanteen vakavuuden. Mielestäni hyvä lähtökohta jatkotyölle asunnotto muuden poistamiseksi. Tässä vaiheessa haluan myös kiittää kaikkia muutosehdotuksia esittää näitä kollegoja. Kuten muutosehdotuksista koskevasta kannastani, nämä esitteliä muutosehdotuksista voidaan nähdä. Olen ottanut huomioon valtaosaan ehdotuksistaan joko kirjaimellisesta tai hengessä. En kuitenkaan voi hyväksyä muutosehdotusta kuusi, koska se ei kuullut tämän lausunnon soveltamisalaan. Asiantuntijani, ysäityjen toimitusjohtaja Juha Kaakista, sedekevaliokunnan sihteeristöä ja poliittista ryhmääni tuesta. Kiitos. Kiitos. Mikko, meillä ei ole mitään suurua. Nyt ei. Ei, meillä ei ole. Mikko, en tiedä, jos haluaisin ottaa jotain asioita, puheenjohtaja, voin ehkä todeta sen, että äsken käytyy hyvä keskustelu, ja olemme asioista ilmeisen samaa mieltä, niin haluan vielä kerran kiittää kaikkiaan sitä keskustelusta. Kiitos. Nyt me olemme ihmisille. Kiitos. Nyt me olemme perustuneet debatioon 2022 Euroopan vuoden vuodessa. Meillä on erilaisia asioita. Haluaisin asioita. Mielestäni, asioita, olemme huomioon Euroopan yhdessä perustuneen 2022 Euroopan vuoden vuoden vuodessa. Yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä Euroopan yhdessä. Tällä päivänä on tullut koko ajan. Nyt me olemme koko ajan. Meillä on yhdessä koko ajan. Meillä on koko ajan. Meillä on koko ajan. Meillä on koko ajan. We have an additional opportunity to work together with the young generation in shaping our European future, because they are indeed the future of Europe. So I would like also to draw your attention to the core initiative, the core program for young elected politicians which we intend to pursue and further develop because it is a greatly enriching and mutual beneficial exercise. Let me also mention the European Youth Capitals, an initiative that recognizes the achievements at the local level in our cities and municipalities to respond to youth needs and aspirations and for the empowering young and boosting youth participation. So to ensure a long lasting legacy of this European Year of Youth, we need to mainstream a youth perspective in all policy areas at EU, national, regional and local levels and to involve youth, more young people in decision making at all these levels. At this occasion we also welcome the recommendations from the young elected politicians. Finally, I would invite all our commissions to take note of this year and to contribute to its success by integrating the youth perspective in their works in a meaningful way. I assure you that the Committee of the Region stands ready to team up with other partners to deliver on the common objective of empowering youth, fostering youth participation and improving the well-being of our young generation. And without further delay, I would welcome Silja Markula, President of the European Youth Forum, our first guest speaker today. Thank you so much for accepting our invitation. We are really glad to have you here. You're also a member of our high level group on democracy. You chair one of the working group of the Conference on the Future of Europe dealing with youth policies. So it is my great pleasure to give you the floor and to give you the floor for five minutes. Silja, you have the floor, five minutes. Thank you very much for the floor and thank you to the Committee of the Regions for inviting me to speak today at your plenary session. This is a very great pleasure to be here. My name is Indeitya Markula and I'm the President of the European Youth Forum, the largest platform of youth organizations in the world. We represent over 100 youth organizations and youth platforms from across Europe and represent millions of young people from across Europe. And I'm delighted to be here to participate in this debate on the Year of Youth and share ideas on how together we can make this year a resounding success. We often hear that we as the youth, that we are the future, but let me also recall that we are the present. We are here and our lives matter as much as those of the older generations. Now, turning to the resolution of the Committee that you have drafted, it seems that we are speaking with the same voice and I agree wholeheartedly with many of the points that you have included and emphasized in your views. In particular, the focus on ensuring that the year is truly inclusive is key. Every young person in Europe should know and feel that this is a year for them. We can achieve this both through providing young people with accessible opportunities to participate at all levels and through taking forward meaningful policy change. We know that young people have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left our education, employment, mental health all at lasting risk for our generation. Now that we focus on rectifying this picture during the year of youth, this will be very crucial using the year as an opportunity to really recover from all those different things. For instance, by banning unpaid internships, making sure that the transition from education to employment is much smoother and easier for young people. It would also send a clear signal to Europe's youth that even in these precarious and uncertain times, we deserve access to quality, well-regulated employment opportunities. We also know that young people's priorities are wide-ranging from, as I said, employment, to climate, to health, to the economy, just to name a few areas, and therefore it will be important to involve multiple DGs in the implementation of the year. Most relevantly for this debate, of course, DG Regio, we ensure that the budget for actions comes from multiple programs beyond the two EU youth programs. This would allow young people to participate at all levels and at all the different areas of topics that concern our lives. Given this cross-cultural nature of youth policy, I agree with the importance of ensuring that a legacy of this year is the mainstreaming of youth actions across all policy areas at all levels, including the local and all EU programs. We have also seen the power of the Committee of the Regions local dialogues in establishing these two-way discussions with young people and decision makers on the EU political agenda. I would like to invite the representatives to continue to draw and build on these mechanisms during the year and bring in people's views and their local perspectives to EU decision makers and indeed all policy areas at local level. I appreciate the Committee's continued support of the European Youth Capital Initiative and I agree with your reflection in the resolution that complementarities between the initiative and the year of youth should be sought to reinforce their mutual effectiveness and outreach and bring all that important local perspective to a European level. We also agree with the importance the resolution places on using this year as an impetus to improve youth-specific data collection at all levels for youth by policy and decision makers. We're interested in the work of the Committee of the Regions that you're already doing on local data collection such as your study on the local implementation of the youth guarantee and we believe there's further opportunities like this where we could collaborate. At the European Youth Forum we're looking forward to continuing our very close collaboration with the Committee of the Regions next year and to seeing the implementation of the exciting and meaningful elements in resashed in your action plan for the year. We believe that you're a key partner in particular to ensure that a strong local perspective is brought and champion during the European year of youth. This will ensure maximum outreach to young people, to my generation at all levels and the delivery of a year that leads to a truly lasting meaningful change which goes beyond just the year of 2022 and gives us a true legacy for the year of youth. Thank you very much. Well, thank you so much. We don't want to thank you. So now we're going to proceed with the floor and the floor goes to Vitautas Brubliowskas, Mayor of Klaipida. You have the floor. Four, five minutes. Thank you so much, Chair. I will use the opportunity to speak in Lithuania. It's not so often, but sometimes it happens. Thank you so much. So Klaipida, six months, given the European Youth Organization's rhythm that it is necessary that the initiative and the map of the local area will be taken into account twice. Antrasis Bualimingas and the European Forum will be taken into account in the European Union in 2021, Klaipida. So we have a vision and a plan. Now we can see how Klaipida will be in the next year and how it will be in the future. We will be able to take into account those programs but also those programs in Korea and in the EU. We will be able to identify those issues that will be identified in the EU as a candidate for this title. So all the titles in the EU were already new in the EU initiative in Korea, both in the EU and in the EU. We will be able to implement social, political, cultural projects and the foundation of this project. So let's start. How will the EU-organisation, the EU-organisation and the European Union, represent the EU-organisation and the EU-organisation as a candidate for the EU? It is symbolic, that in the 21st, Lithuania was the first country to be legislated in the 25th century and in the 26th, Lithuania was the first country that will be given Per 2000-2011-tusi igivendiin on me daugioon, kuten 400 vaikeudellaan. Festivali, Jounimun iniciativu, Gebeimu, Stiprinimu veiklu, vizito- ja pristatimu, diskusi- ja sustikimu ja norsu järjestelmä, ceremonija ja joulut ja scepti-niolikta. Kiteisiin mätäksi programma, nautita DAR per 510 vaikeudellaan. Kokei risultaata matamme. Suomuoto, naujebändradarbeimu kultura. Haisi kai parodokat sprindimaa del Jounimu tai Jounimu, ne busprimami. Atvirumas labaisvarbus, turima ilgamete, specialistu patirtis. Be jaunateuskas maksimalijumas adneisa puikiusresultatos. Uistikirntas Jounimaporeikus ja tinkanssi Jounimapolitiikosstrategios ja jivendiimas kartu sumiesto-pletro-strategia. Uismäkstas tiesiogenis-dologas, termiesto- ja Jounimu. Beisukurtos ilgaleikies, kuren sosiaali- ja poliitiikkia aktiivia Jounimu-pendrominen. Matumie geräinti savanoristias ilvezdi. Jok savanorista vertena mateigemai. Primaan savanorisorganisaatios puikii, presidada, formodamas praktika. Traukti savanoris netikkii jivendiimo-prosesus. Tačiau ikuribos-prosesus taipakku. Turime dauggeru-pavizjuu. Kei piuniismonis, savanoristas-pagalba ja kalingu-professiinen veiklaibii tampe-primansi-organisaatio-darboteis. Pasiakkaimme pavieni, neorganizota Jounimaa ja gyvennänne mihinkään ambassaduri-initiitiva. Suformaamme aktiivu Jounola-judieima ja kuriin sitraukia dažniausien nektivus Jounimas. Taipa skatino. Ja vaihres Jounimai patraukkia bendravima ja reiklu-formas. Ambassaduri, taipa tapo leibais varbe projekto- ja gyvenninimo-initiitiva. Kuri biškumui projektometu, johon Jounimas draseu-jängä saavu ideju ja gyvenninimo-link, domisi projektorengimous-subtilibimis ja deda-pastangas, ideas-poverstire-libi. Ja dažnu-atviju, tuotiemsi, johon olemis pireikki, tyk-padrasinimo. Dabarturime suformuota Jounimu-bendromine, kuri siek-erkitais-mätaisi vaihriu projekto-finansaimu-fondu-pagalba ja gyvennintiprojektu. Tai didelis-pasiakimas, kaematumia ženglu-pokitiligina su 2008-mätais. Jounimas gali organizuoti saavu-renginius veleisti laikossa druugais, grafiti menu, kuri nivu, tai patnoja platforma, johon grafiti meni kai gali teikti saavu-pasiulimus, poisti grafiti pechineisi siulomaismiestot-pasiinas pagalba, kuri mennoujas traukosvietas mieste. Noujosimon traditiios tokei festivali ja vaeruusrenginei, kuri hieman omatitas testinumasi ja skirti buntianti-onimui, kuri nouja mieste kurss-projektus mieste ja gyvendiina ja jouunima urian potusprojektus. Täällä vaiheera janklasi, siekentiö miesto, kun tuntuu niemiä gyvenime, jouunimuii buntuskirjama, kodougeu dimese. Miestä tei patskirjama, douk dimeseu, mažinan, sosiaalinen, askirti, kisopatirjoisimionimui. Vizdougeu miesto, istargoilaisvaloike, laidimu, vietu, labiopreinomasiivare, sniagalästurjensimionimui. Viisiäms, didonomatoleransia, ugdoma empatiä ja jouunimuari miesto bandromines, tämän skaiciuja ja LGD-PT-atstovams, useniettiams, tautniams mažumuams, priklausanssimionimui. Visi klei pedos, kai pyörämpi, jouunimasosnies, 21-maismätäistikslei, puikeetsis pindi possektorezultatasi. Viikdemikartusupartnien smatomi, jo klei pedos siekii, su tampasut daugiolle netikiletavoja, beteuroropos miestus siekii. Tät esimet virit ja norimmedalintis possektorezultatais. Gerosumis, patirtimis, biikomokomis, kurjuiis mokemi givendini shitikilet. Net ne bijo jääme. Jo projektas da rilgai da risiitaka miestu givendimu urnepsiribos tiktoa. Lietuvos, jouunimasos, niin siitivaa startua jokitaismätäistat klei pedos, lietuvai, atneštaini siitivagivos, ilgai. Ja galima da riti išvada, jo katit hiei, netiklaipeda, kurja tehtiä slavui. Achu, thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, your colleague. And now it is my pleasure to welcome Lidia Praira, she's a member of the European Parliament and president of the Youth of the European People's Party. Lidia, you have the floor for three minutes. Hello, good morning and thank you very much for the kind invitation to be here. As a young politician, as president of the Youth of the EPP to discuss the commission's proposal to make 2022 the European Year of Youth and of course take the opportunity to draft to welcome the draft resolution that will be voted after this session. Well, today the EU is facing long-term challenges in both digital and environmental transitions that will have a significant impact in the shift that our societies work. So the decisions we take today will have a tremendous impact on younger generations and those that are yet to come. Just as establishment of the Erasmus program in 1987 was one of the most successful EU projects the EU must be able to involve its younger generations in such wide and accepted programs. With Erasmus young people understood the needs for further European integration, the complexity of European history and culture and the benefits of the single market. Now the EU must ensure that these young generations trust and believe in the EU's capacity to shape their future in a sustainable and prosperous way. The European Year of Youth should have exactly the same to reconnect to the EU's youth with all levels of EU policymaking. Just as Erasmus was only successful due to the intense work of universities, so at the local level, future policymaking in the EU will truly connect with its youth if it allows them the ability to influence the EU's policies through their local and regional authorities. Therefore, I believe a stronger effort must be made to hear the concerns of young people regarding their post-pandemic future and facing the digital and environmental transitions. Increased contact with local authorities makes it easier to collect data on young people which is scarce today, as well as ensure the EU explores not only the relative similarities between young people but mainly the differences between them. And this is the only way we leave no one behind and ensure that marginalized youth feel their future is somehow safeguarded. 2022 should also be the year where EU policymakers truly understand the need for the inclusion of an intergenerational fairness strategic thinking on most European policy areas. Knowing the impact policies being drawn will have on future generations with rigorous assessments should be in the heart of the policymaking. When taking decisions, politicians must be held responsible, held accountable on how their decisions reflect on life conditions for younger generations. So this is the message I wanted to leave to your debate today. And once again, thank you very much for the invitation and I'll be here to follow your work and to keep working with you. Thank you very much. Well, we are the ones who thank you so much for your insights and for taking the time to share with us your views. Thank you. Now I will give the floor to Alicia Omsgin-Ginnell, president of the Young European Socialist. You have the floor for three minutes. Thank you very much, president, and thank you very much for the invitation to this plenary of the Committee of Regions. I think this European year of youth is our opportunity to change a structural reality. Europe has a whole generation, its best-prepared generation, trying to build its own life project. Something complicated when you don't have future prospects. My generation grew with the 2008 financial crisis, whose consequences we still dragged when the COVID-19 pandemic was yesterday. A pandemic that not only has highlighted the precariousness in which we were installed, partly because of the political mistakes of austerity, but it has caused problems such as mental health, that although they were not so obvious before, they were already among us. In this European year of youth, what we have to do is speak directly with all those young people and those young people without economic or educational prospects. Because the success of Europe in the end is the success of those who have less opportunities of emancipation and, unfortunately, they tend to have, in these cases, a face of youth. I think we can't continue with a youth unemployment rate like the one we currently have and we can't continue discussing about the future of Europe with a whole generation doubting their own. I think that, in the end, this European year of youth can and has to go further. We have to integrate all those young people and those young people in this project, making youth policies a horizontal priority incorporated in all the policies of the Union, since the COVID-19 crisis affects education, employment, mental health, and all the economic income of all and all the young people. I think we should continue to create quality jobs, taking advantage of the potential of green and digital transitions, to ensure fair salaries and access to social protection, to end up with non-remunerated practices, to guarantee access to a dignified and affordable housing, which you mentioned in the previous point, to combat structural discrimination that we still suffer from in wages and minimum income, and recovery goes on to tackle all these problems that have, in turn, a common axis, which are anxiety, anguish and depression generated by young people. I think that's why mental health has to be in the center of this year. We have passed the silence to the debate, and now we have to pass the debate to action. This year we have the opportunity to build a future for those who are trying to build their own vital projects, and I think we should not forget that there is no future for Europe without youth. Thank you very much for the invitation. I thank you not only as a deputy in the European Parliament, but also as president of the youth of European Socialists, and I hope that the resolution you have will benefit everyone. Thank you very much. Thank you. Here you are. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you very much. In Laimak, the European Liberal Youth, we aim to encourage young people to be active citizens and promote opportunities to bring change to their societies. We therefore welcome the initiatives a lot. We strongly believe that people with fewer opportunities should also get the chance to be part of the discussions and be able to shape the future, and Asylja pointed out the present of Europe. We want the year of the youth to be the year where young people are included at the table for major decisions, starting with the outcomes on the conference on the future of Europe. A structural dialogue between the EU institutions and youth organizations towards youth and future-oriented policies has to be the next step. As the future of Europe is especially important to us, we worked hard to gather young Liberals from across Europe and collect the proposals for the conference. We are very eager and open to future discussions. One of the proposals that was put forward by us is similar to the youth entrepreneurship in your initiative. We very much welcome this step towards giving youth the tools to take chance into their own hands and removing barriers and dealing with youth unemployment. But we should not stop there. The removal of protectionist policies and additional barriers for young people that they face when entering the job market has to be tackled to. Finally, we acknowledged it nowadays, youth has a great knowledge of society that is more informed than the previous generations due to digitization and increasing connected society. That is why we propose to lower the voting age to 16 for the European elections. This way young people gain a stronger voice in policymaking. Topics such as education, youth employment, sustainable and future-oriented policies would be given a higher priority than the political agenda. I would like to conclude my remarks with the message that is very central to our Lymec and my own political efforts. Youth should be able to do more than just propose ideas. We need to also be included in decision making and I'm very thankful for the invitation to speak here and I'm very much looking forward to the next generation in the year of the youth but hopefully also beyond that. Thank you very much. Thank you Ines. Thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. Now I will give the floor to the President of the European Free Alliance Youth, Valentina Cervella Clavel. She's online. You have the floor. Four, three minutes. Thank you very much for having me and thank you as well for my colleagues who have needed points and comments. As we're talking about the European Year of the Youth, I think from the European Free Alliance we want actions. We're tired of just listening. It's the Year of the Youth. We want you on board. We want to be working with you but we need actions now. As my colleagues have mentioned, our generation has been inherited a crisis since 2008. My childhood home in 2009 due to the economic crisis and since then my starting life hasn't been the same. Now we're inherited a crisis from the COVID-19 and expectations for young people to either buy a house, find a job or even just have the life our parents so much talked about. It's not looking good. I had to emigrate from Barcelona to Glasgow because Barcelona barely had any options for me. I couldn't study and I couldn't work in the place that I grew up and that I loved. So I moved to Scotland where I was able to study for free just because I'm European and since my four years in that country I just fell in love. But this is something that I wish I hadn't had to do. It's something I wish I could have done in my country next to my family and my friends. Education should not be a privilege. Education should be a basic need. And across the European continent we found that that's not the case. We found that more people and more young people have to sacrifice whether earning money, going to university and putting themselves in debt or just starting working in a precarious job. We want to have a seat on the table but only to be listened but be taken into account. We're tired of just being listened and saying you are the future. We are not the future only. We are the present as well. And we found that every time we're inheriting governments and more precarious situations that are not working for us and yet we find ourselves with the issues. When we think about the climate change crisis it was young people who led the conversation. It was young people who raised the voice for the world to see our planet was dying. When we think of the protests in Belarus or in the Catalan referendum it was young people at the forefront of those protests because we understand the changes that needs to happen in our future. The system right now is not working for us. We are falling through the cracks whether you are a minority, stateless nation or just young from any part in Europe the system right now doesn't work for you. So I really thank you for having us today and listening to us but please take us into account. For a work where we can cooperate and create a better world for not only the youth now but the youth to come. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for being with us. Now I will give the floor to Eleanor Morrissey. She is a co-spokes person of the Federation of Young European Greens. Eleanor, you have the floor for three minutes. Thank you. Can you hear me? I think my camera is working. Yes, we can hear you. We cannot see you but we can hear you. Well I think that's okay then if I can just speak. So the European Review is an opportunity to put youth priorities on the political map but we need young people's involvement from the very start. So I thank the Committee of the Regions for this opportunity to speak on behalf of FIEG and of young people fighting for a democratic and inclusive Europe. We are concerned that this year of youth will result in a lot of stylish campaigns but very little substance because 2021 was the European year of rail and unfortunately that didn't go too far. As young people our lives are defined by our youth where we want to be taken seriously in politics to be respected and given rights in the workplace to even be able to afford a decent home. We are the first generation that is worse off than our predecessors. Most of us will never be able to own a home in our lifetime. Since 2008 young people are facing precarity because any job is better than none. But this has left us with unpaid internships, gig work and zero hour contracts. The situation has only gotten worse in the pandemic and young people who are already vulnerable have now dropped out from education or the quality of education is lower. And we are in a fully fledged climate crisis on a path to hit the world to 2.5 degrees. So all of this precarity is resulting in mental health and wellbeing issues amongst us young people. So without concrete actions the European year of youth will only remain as youth washing. And currently the European Commission promises the schemes to improve access to work, training and education. But these schemes overlook people from small cities and rural communities. Migrants and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. And we are also concerned that the core funding for young people such as Erasmus Plus and the European Solidarity Corp. will be limited of the EU promises as new schemes to only benefit a few. So we completely agree with you that the year should not be limited to young people from EU member states but should also involve young people from the UK, from the western Balkans and EU partnership countries. And we support the initiative from the Committee of the Regions to promote youth participation in local democracy. As we believe decisions that impact every citizen's life should be taken at the level closest to them. And we believe direct democracy can help show young people how they have the power to influence politics at the local level. So we support more power given to local and regional governments. But with this more young people and marginalised people should be involved in decision making. So we need to remove the barriers that prevent people from taking part whether it is economic or social discriminations to be tackled. So youth organisations from the European level to local groups need to be strengthened through training and support so they can participate meaningfully. And we want to see the outcomes from the European Year of Youth exist beyond 2022 because we are not the next generation but the current generation. So I appeal to the Committee of the Regions to follow these closely and to bring these initiatives to young people at the local level. And we look forward to following the outcomes of your resolution and work. Thank you. Thank you so much for being with us. Now I will give the floor to one of our young elected politicians Sandra Schnilok. Sandra, you have the floor for three minutes. Welcome. Thank you so much. Dear chair and dear members of the Parliament of the plenary. Hello and good morning from Cologne. I'm happy to introduce the recommendations of the elected politicians of the this year's YAP program. We prepared these recommendations with knowledge from all across Europe, from program members being from rural areas and big cities as well and everything in between that Europe regions have to offer. To build a bridge between the YAPs and the plenary today my YAP colleagues were wise or maybe funny enough to choose their oldest member me to present our recommendations so I'm even more delighted to be able to present the younger generation of local politicians in the debate today before I stop being concerned as young. Experience is not only measured in years but also in the knowledge that you are able to acquire. So knowledgeable young people can make older generations quite uncomfortable but please put any prejudice aside. The young elected politicians have major insights into the challenges and needs of the citizens and their communities and should be heard in all opinions of the committee of the regions and in the European Parliament. We prepared 19 recommendations that I trust you all read so I just want to highlight a few of them. In building resilient and inclusive communities we call for action for the European Union to provide an empowering and accessible framework for citizens to help them find sustainable solutions for the individual life situations especially for young people and vulnerable groups. We also call upon the EU to encourage member states to establish participatory processes for young people at local and regional level on their priorities for resilience building that fits the specific characteristics of different regions. We also call for sufficient funding for digital transformation and transition especially for remote and rural areas to ensure the widespread and efficient internet structure. Digital education to enhance digital skills and we also encourage women to go into STEM careers and to have them at every table where decisions are being made. For a lively democracy European democracy we call on the EU to initiate and support regular initiatives such as the conference on the future of Europe including young local and regional decision makers and a permanent dialogue with citizens and not only during election time. For best practice sharing between young leaders we ask for a political erasmus program for young elected politicians to be supported and implemented by the EU. And for jobs and education for young people we want training, internships and apprenticeships opportunities at the EU level and make cross-border work easier when people work in one country and live in another. We also ask for promotion of cooperation between public and private sectors especially startups and business created by young people. Ahead of the European Year of Youth let me tell you this there is experience knowledge and wisdom in our young generation especially with the young elected politicians who take pride in representing their cities and regions and are ready to take even more responsibility. Please listen to us as we are the present and also the future of Europe and thanks for the opportunity to speak to you today and as I could see from my previous speakers the future of Europe is very much female which I very much like. Thank you so much. Thank you Sandra, thank you for your participation and now we thank you and thank all our guest speakers. We have several requests for the floor from our members