The National Youth Council of Moldova, together with a group of youth organizations, called on the acting mayor of Chisinau municipality Ruslan Codreanu to ensure greater transparency in the project to set up the Chisinau Municipal Youth Center that was announced earlier this week.
In a news conference at IPN, the Council’s chairman Valeriu Drăgălin said the City Hall should not allow this place to become accessible only to a small group of young people who are close to those who hold power. This should be an area for everyone, including for young people with disabilities.
Irina Potângă, head of the organization “BEST Chisinau”, called on the authorities to offer more information about the center’s future, its structure and departments and how the youth organizations could become involved. The center could be not only an area for activity, but also a new community of active young people where these could exchange experience and take part in different formation and training sessions and other activities.
Adrian Nacu, a member of the organization AEGEE Chisinau, voiced hope that this center would become a place where the youth organizations could meet as many of these do not gave precincts.
In the same news conference, the young people expressed their regret at the fact that Chisinau city lost the chance of becoming the European Youth Capital in 2021. Valeriu Drăgălin said that even if it was among the favorites and had a good file, Chisinau lost because representatives of the local authorities didn’t go to undertake responsibility for the organization of this event.
National Youth Council secretary general Ana Indoitu said in 2017 Chisinau also lost the chance of becoming the European Youth Capital for the same reason – the authorities of the capital city had a negligent attitude to the project. The status of European Youth Capital would have enabled Chisinau to attract tourists and to become better known. Chisinau is ready to become the European Capital and can host large-scale youth events because the young people in Moldova are as prepared and competitive as the young people in the EU member states. Moldova also has experience and positive practices that could have been shared with young people from the EU states.
