The rapporteur does not consider that the PDB lives up to the expectations that can rightly be expected from the young people of Europe in this field and the possibility to open a negotiating element with Council aiming to find a suitable solution to increase the co-decided reference amounts in SOCRATES and YOUTH, in accordance with a real "European Youth Pact" and as an anticipation of probable higher levels of these programmes for the period after 2006, should be considered.
The rapporteur does not consider that the PDB lives up to the expectations that can rightly be expected from the young people of Europe in this field and the possibility to open a negotiating element with Council aiming to find a suitable solution to increase the co-decided reference amounts in SOCRATES and YOUTH, in accordance with a real "European Youth Pact" and as an anticipation of probable higher levels of these programmes for the period after 2006, should be considered.