[ARTICLE] Youth organisations have role to play in tackling violent radicalisation

Youth workers in the European Union is a great mean of building communities to include and support young people into the society and labour market. There are many ways to reach this goal and in his article published back in May before the European Youth Forum, Tibor Navracsics explains his views and suggestions in detail. Mr. Navracsics is a Hungarian lawyer and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade from June to September 2014. Currently, he is the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. Find his informative and useful article bellow:

Over the coming days, thousands of young people from across Europe will come together for this year’s European Youth Event and YO!Fest to discuss how to bring about change. And indeed, Europe needs the energy and creativity of its young generations to overcome the big challenges it is facing, and to build strong, open societies.

This is critical today, as our fundamental values of freedom, democracy, human dignity and mutual respect are under attack. Terrible terrorist attacks, most recently in Brussels, have been a shocking demonstration of how exclusion and radicalisation can lead to violent extremism.

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