The European Commission announced on Tuesday, 1 June, that it has appointed Biliana Sirakova as the first EU Youth Coordinator. She will be “a point of contact and a visible reference point for young Europeans and the organisations that represent them”, summarised European Commissioner for Innovation and Youth Mariya Gabriel during a press conference.
Ms Sirakova will thus be responsible for, as she herself put it, providing “a connection between entities, people, and ideas”. She...