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recommends including youth representatives in every youth-focused legal activity and involving young people in all stages of the policy-making process, from decision-making to the implementation and evaluation of policies;
estimates that civil society and social partner organisations should further support young people by providing capacity-building workshops, making it easier for them to connect with resources and opportunities for involvement;
calls on the European Commission to support a third phase of the South Mediterranean Social Dialogue (SOLiD) project, which should be used to develop a Youth Charter, while also exploring the establishment of youth-focused consultative mechanisms.
emphasizes that Mediterranean countries are often characterised by a lack of adequate frameworks for effective social dialogue and therefore stresses the need to strengthen social dialogue in particular at national, sectoral and company levels through the full implementation of the key ILO Conventions on social dialogue.
Oliver Röpke, President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and Dimitris Dimitriadis, Section President for External Relations of the EESC
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As the President of the European Economic and Social Committee, I welcome the implementation of the ceasefire in Gaza, which has allowed for the release of the first hostages. Others must follow and critical humanitarian aid must be delivered to the suffering civil population in Gaza.
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