EU Youth Conference Highlights the Importance of Youth Policy

People ♦ Published: July 13, 2022; 13:45 ♦ (Vindobona)

In the course of the EU Youth Conference in Prague, Austria's State Secretary for Youth Claudia Plakolm stressed the importance of young people having a say in politics.

Austria's State Secretary for Youth at the EU Youth Conference. / Picture: © Bundeskanzleramt (BKA) / Arno Melicharek

Austria's State Secretary for Youth, Claudia Plakolm, was the only foreign member of the government to attend the EU Youth Conference in Prague. She was invited to the conference in Prague by Petr Gazdík, the former Czech Minister of Education, Youth and Sports.

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