During a visit to the Council of Europe on 28 April 2021, where she will meet Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General, and exchange views with the Committee of Ministers, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs and current Chair-in-Office of the OSCE, Ann Linde will pay a visit to the European Youth Centre.

In the afternoon of 28 April, Ann Linde will host a roundtable on Youth participation in legislative and policy processes. The OSCE has been increasing its work in the youth field and youth issues have been a permanent theme in OSCE presidencies for some years now.

The roundtable, which is being moderated by Alice Bergholtz, member of the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ) Bureau, will bring together – both in the EYCS and via videolink – Rosaline Marbinah, OSCE Special Representative on Youth and Security; Antje Rothemund, Head of the Council of Europe Youth Department; Jasmina Todorovska Miteva, ODIHR, OSCE Mission to Skopje; Olena Glazkova, KIEC European Club (Kremenchuk, Poltava region, Ukraine), trainer in human rights education; Andrea Ugrinoska, Chair of the Advisory Council on Youth; Lukas Stede, Advisory Council on Youth; Augusta Featherston, ODIHR’s Youth Focal Point and Democratic Governance Officer; and Anastasia Fusco, Adviser on Youth and Security, OSCE secretariat.

It will not be the first time Ann Linde has been in the Youth Centre. From 1984 to 1988, she was Secretary General of LSU, the National Youth Council of Sweden, and in this capacity was member of the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ). Later, Ann Linde started working for the government and represented Sweden on the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) from 1991–1993 so the minister has experienced the youth sector’s co-management system on both sides of the dialogue.

 Further information on Ann Linde’s visit to the Council of Europe.