Youth
2024 EU Elections – ELYN Contribution to EL strategy
The EL Youth Network (ELYN), in view of the next EU Elections in 2024, puts forward some proposals, grouped into the following topics:
- Right to education
- Social rights and welfare
- Safety and repression
right to education
Stopping the privatisation of higher education and research institutes; abolition of tuition fees (including for the non-European students); tackling precariousness of students and employees in academic sector; making students independent from parents’ income, adopting welfare measures; implementation of anti-discrimination measures (numbers instead of names on exams, workshops for staff etc.); schooling and workshops for teachers and professors regarding the gender binary and possible diverse gender identities; regulating the system for assigning scholarships at European level in order to make the university accessible to all; recognize the status of PhD students and researchers as workers in all EU countries; abolition of admission tests, especially in life-sustaining fields such as medicine, care work, for midwives, psychology, etc; prevent the use of spaces in public schools and universities by organizations that refer to fascism and national socialism; anti-violence workshops in schools, especially for boys, in order to contrast femicide.
social rights and welfare
Guaranteeing free access to health (including mental health and access to abortion) for everyone, including non-European citizens; facilitating access to housing (rent control, an increase of housing benefits…); unified social benefits that guarantee a humane life, creating a European minimum wage for youth, to make young people independent and less susceptible to blackmail with precarious jobs, aligning the minimum wage with the cost of living in each country; removing obstacles on EU-level for labour unions to act internationally, they should be made stronger in EU levels; subvention only of socially progressive projects; establishing a European program for student housing.
safety and repression:
Fighting systemic racism and police violence; rigorous protection of all marginalized groups, such as Sinti & Roma; creation of European programs to allow refugees to reach Europe in complete safety.
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