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EU: 2022 will officially be the European Year of Youth
The European Union is calling on its younger citizens to ‘regain control’ of their lives once the worst of the pandemic is over.Read more![Screenshot 2020-09-24 at 09.25.34](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screenshot-2020-09-24-at-09.25.34-128x128.png)
Child poverty: Countries backing European Child Guarantee
A taskforce of some of the EU’s most prominent child rights organisations has thrown its weight behind the European Child Guarantee, aimed at making sure impoverished children have access to the most basic human rights.Read more![EMBARGOED until 00:01am GMT on 3 March 2021](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/UN0423970-128x128.jpg)
Time for school: UNICEF & the European Union ring the bell
With 897 million school children around the world affected by disruptions to their education, senior officials from UNICEF and the European Union reiterated their support to ensure the right to education for all.Read more![bullying-4378156_1920](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bullying-4378156_1920-128x128.jpg)
Council of Europe: EU states must ‘intensify their efforts to protect children’s privacy in the COVID-era digital world’
EU countries have been told they must improve safeguarding measures in processing personal data of children, notably that which is health-related and also collected in education settings.Read more![children climate voice Tom Driggers/Flickr](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/32332724371_579260944f_k-128x128.jpg)
Thousands of children speak up about their future hopes and fears
A survey of more than 10,000 children has revealed that one in five are ‘unhappy’ and ‘anxious for the future’.Read more![traffic-light-1024768_1920](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/traffic-light-1024768_1920-128x128.jpg)
EU countries moving towards ‘pedestrian-friendly’ future
Children who walk or cycle to school in Berlin will benefit from a newly-passed pedestrian law in the city designed to shift the priority away from cars and towards the interests of vulnerable road users.Read more![](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_0519-128x128.jpg)
Children and young people: ‘Let us participate in the issues which affect us’
Participation in decision-making processes, quality education, internet access and climate change make up the chief concerns for children and young people throughout Africa and Europe.Read more![digital family media Credit: CC Flickr Ed Ivanushkin](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/5466781508_6b3bae40b5_b-128x128.jpg)
Instagram investigated over handling of children’s data
Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is investigating social media giant Instagram over the use of the personal data of children.Read more![Denmark cycling](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Denmark-cycling-128x128.jpg)
European Mobility Week creates child-friendly city streets
Many European cities’ usually-busy streets will be car-free – and with it child-friendly – over the next few days as part of European Mobility Week.Read more![](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/London-pollution2-128x128.jpg)
EU: Countries must tackle pollution and climate change to protect children
Air pollution and heatwaves are a factor in one in eight of all deaths in Europe, many of them children who are particularly vulnerable to environmental factors. The European Environment Agency (EEA), in a report, says...Read more![stroller-4844146_1920](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/stroller-4844146_1920-128x128.jpg)
EU Summit: leaders urged to ‘rescue’ children from poverty
European Union leaders have been told they must initiate a rescue plan now to help pull vulnerable children out of poverty. The call has come from hundreds of organisations and individuals acting under the umbrella of...Read more![siblings-817369_1920](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/siblings-817369_1920-128x128.jpg)
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Finland and Portugal latest destinations for Greek migrant children
Portugal and Finland have together taken in a further 49 unaccompanied migrant children from Greece as part of a European Commission and United Nations partner agencies’ relocation scheme.Read more![Screenshot 2020-06-18 at 08.40.08](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-2020-06-18-at-08.40.08-128x128.png)
The struggles of children left behind by migration at the time of COVID-19
We can only imagine what it must be like, as teenage sisters, to have your family ripped apart and be left to rely on each other to make ends meet, while facing an ever-present threat...Read more![I love Europe](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/I-love-Europe-e1529915283131-128x128.jpg)