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REPER leaders, including co-chair MEP Dragos Pislaru and deputy chair Catalin Tenita, on Saturday attended a flashmob in Bucharest where they drew attention to the fact that Romania has currently one million fewer young people than at the last census, and that youth unemployment has quadrupled in the last year.
According to a REPER press statement, the youth organisation of the REPER party - REPER Youth - organised a flashmob in University Square.
"I gladly responded to the REPER Youth's invitation to go out with them in the streets to draw attention to the fact that over half of Romania's young people live in the countryside and do not have access to opportunities, about the fact that young people with disabilities are not considered able enough to be fully integrated into society and the fact that in the last decade 100,000 young people have left Romania. As chairman of the Labour and Social Affairs Committee in the European Parliament, youth policies are a priority for me and I made considerable efforts to offer them programmes and projects under which they can be supported and develop. I hope that Romania has the wisdom to celebrate its newer generations with more funds, activities and projects dedicated to them," Pislaru is quoted as saying in the statement.
REPER Youth Co-chairs Armand Epurescu and Tana Foarfa, also motivated the street action, according to agerpres.ro.
"Today's initiative was aimed at wishing them a sincere 'Happy Youth Day!' to the young people who were in the area in the morning, to see if they resonated with our messages to increase the involvement of young people in politics, to offer more programmes to support mental health among young people, to incorporate sex education in schools and to live in a pro-European Romania."
