Romania’s government is preparing a 20-year EU project with young people at its centre, Prime Minister Luca Niculescu said at the cabinet meeting, AGERPRES reported.

He cited a busy European week: Ursula von der Leyen’s visit, €50 million for the Black Sea security hub, PNRR talks with Roxana Mînzatu and a meeting with EU ambassadors hosted by Ireland, which holds the Council presidency.

“Romania remains deeply committed to Europe… and we are preparing a project for Romania’s next 20 years in the European Union,” Niculescu said, noting accession’s 20th anniversary is under a month and a half away.

Romania has one of the EU’s highest rates of young people neither in education nor employment. He wants a national programme to bring them back into schooling, skills and jobs, with coordinated ministries.

The initiative is meant to go European with other member states facing similar problems, to mobilise more EU resources — “an investment in these young people’s future and in Romania’s and Europe’s economic future.”

Image: EC — Ursula von der Leyen at B9 summit, Bucharest (Wikimedia Commons).

Sources consulted: Niculescu: project for Romania’s next 20 years in the EU — AGERPRES.