Making Citizenship Work: Fostering European Culture and Diversity through Programmes for Youth, Culture, Audiovisual and Civic Participation

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"This included the need to make citizenship a reality by fostering European culture and diversity, covering areas directly involving European citizens with the integration process, i.e. Youth, Culture, the Audiovisual sector and Civic Participation.

The existing programmes in these areas will all end in 2006 and, in the light of the above mentioned communication as well as the results of public consultations and recent evaluation reports, the Commission will later this year adopt legislative proposals for a new generation of programmes for these areas for the next programming period (except for Civic Participation, which will be tabled in early 2005 on the basis of an initial appraisal of the new programme in this area launched in 2004 and of the outcome of the European constitutional debate). The purpose of the present Communication is to indicate the content of these proposals and the rationale behind them."