” “"Alarmed by the rise in juvenile crime" and "bullying", the EU is looking for a "common strategy", appealing to preventative measures, the families, the school world. "Juvenile delinquency explains a note from Katerina Batzeli, Greek MEP in Strasbourg is a more dangerous problem that adult crime, because it concerns part of the vulnerable population", exposing young people "very early" to the "risk of social exclusion". This is why next Wednesday the EU Parliament will review a report which looks at the causes of this phenomenon, insists on the "limitation of criminal punishment", giving priority, as a preventative measure, to cooperation with the families, the schools, the public authorities. The EU is asked to establish an Observatory on Juvenile Delinquency and a "hotline for problem boys and girls"; as well as to "outline a EU-wide general program" focussed "on the four pillars of prevention, educational punishment, social rehabilitation and judicial and out-of-court measures". The EU Commission and the EU member states are invited to strengthen their common programs for the young, including the one for "Prevention against delinquency", Daphne III "to fight violence against children and young people, "Youth in action", the measures of the European Social Fund and those known as "Equal" (fight against discrimination).” “
