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The EU commission aims to have 100,000 volunteers in the scheme by 2020. (Photo: Ruben Bos)

EU 'rebrands' youth corps

Five months after its official launch in December 2016, the European Commission presented the budget proposal and legal base on Tuesday (30 May) for the European Solidarity Corps.

The new scheme – announced by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in his state of the union address last September – aims to get young unemployed people into volunteering activities or traineeships that “promote solidarity” in their own countries or abroad.\n \nUp to now, the EU solidarity corps ...

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