During its 4th Plenary meeting in December 2021, the Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion (CDADI) established a working group in charge of drafting a Committee of Ministers Recommendation to the member States on active political participation of national minority youth. This is one of 20 deliverables that CDADI needs to prepare in the framework of its current Terms of Reference (2022-2025).
The Study on active political participation of the national minority youth provides the starting point for the draft Recommendation.
The draft was discussed by the CDADI during its 6th Plenary meeting on 29 November – 1 December 2022 in Strasbourg and a public consultation was also held on the draft text. Representatives of national minority youth had the opportunity to give their opinions on the draft during online focus group consultations held in January 2023.
During its fourth meeting, the Working group, comprised of the experts from Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic and Ukraine and joined by the representatives of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Joint Council on Youth, will consider the comments received, and prepare the final draft of the Recommendation.
The draft will be sent to the CDADI for discussion during its 7th plenary meeting on 27-29 June 2023 in Strasbourg.
