Comparative Youth Policies in the EU
https://doi.org/10.17994/IT.2016.14.4.47.10
Abstract
The article deals with the youth policy of advanced European states, building upon the record of France and Germany. The issue of youth policy efficiency acquired crucial importance in terms of social capital reproduction and maintenance in the EU. The state funds different kinds of programs for young people, and tries to minimize negative impact of financial and economic crises on this part of the population. Germany and France represent the most sophisticated and resource-accommodated youth policies in Europe. The article uses comparative analysis and structural and functional approach in order to address youth policy institutional basis and its efficiency in the given countries. Firstly, much attention is paid to the financing of exchange programs inside the EU as well as between France and Germany. Through the establishment of intercultural dialogue between the German and French youth, who do not have a negative historical memory in relation to each other, is fulfilled the task to bring two countries closer together. Strong state support for the development and improvement of youth policy makes clear that the German and French youth policy models are paternalistic. Secondly, the article accesses the difference between the two models. In Germany the institutions engaged in the policy implementation are more centralized, and the legislation is more developed. In France, youth policy is in the hands of the regions, but numerous institutions of public and non-governmental status in are involved the process of its implementation. Young people in France and Germany themselves are more or less active, which indicates that on the one hand, young people are beginning to take an increasingly active civic position, on the other hand, youth policy is bearing fruit. The article concludes that youth policy of France and Germany is constantly adapting to changing conditions due to its institutional design.
About the Author
Evgeny Grachev
Administration of President of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mr Eugeny Grachev - Doctoral Candidate, MGIMO University, Associate, Administration of the President of the Russian Federation
Moscow, 103132
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Grachev E. Comparative Youth Policies in the EU. International Trends / Mezhdunarodnye protsessy. 2016;14(4):133–145. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17994/IT.2016.14.4.47.10
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