Press release of the Council meeting Education, Youth, Culture and Sport, 19 and 20 May 2011

Regarding youth issues the Council adopted two resolutions on:

• encouraging new and effective forms of participation of all young people in democratic life in Europe;
• the structured dialogue with young people on youth employment.

On education matters, the Council reached political agreement on two recommendations:

• one on promoting the learning mobility of young people;
• the other on policies to reduce early school leaving.