A meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 30 in Rome to launch a Franco-Italian civic service, a device that will eventually allow young people from France or Italy to carry out a mission of general interest paid in the other country, told AFP a French minister.
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The idea is to allow young people who are not in the context of their studies, who are in the associative, to live a mobility, "explained to AFP the Secretary of State for Youth Sarah El Haïry, who leads this project included in the Franco-Italian treaty of the Quirinal of 2021.
'A passion'
Aged between 16 and 25, the beneficiaries will be paid around 600 euros to work for up to a year in associations or in local authorities on issues of the environment, solidarity, discrimination, memory or sport: Paris (for the 2024 Summer Olympics), Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo (2026 Winter Olympics) hosting Olympiads. "The only thing you ask is a passion. There are no prerequisites", even linguistic, Italians are not required to speak French to apply and vice versa, said the minister.
The initial objective is modest, of the order of "150 civic services in all, French and Italian" each year, according to the Secretary of State for Youth. In total, since its creation in 2010, more than 700,000 young people have participated in civic service. The Franco-Italian device is provided for in the framework of the Quirinal Treaty, signed in November 2021 in Rome by French President Emmanuel Macron and Mario Draghi, who was then Prime Minister.
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This text provides for areas of enhanced bilateral cooperation in diplomacy and defence, digital and environmental transitions, culture and education, industrial cooperation and space. But diplomatic relations have been strained between the two countries since Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took office. "We try to keep political vagaries out of this treaty. Italy remains a friendly country, El Haïry said. We must not fall behind on youth issues."
