With the first ever ‘Youth Action Plan in EU external action’, adopted on Tuesday 4 October, the European Commission aims to mobilise young people in third countries in support of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the twin transitions - green and digital - that the EU is promoting worldwide. It also hopes that the EU will be able to turn these young people into political allies in decision-making processes, both in their respective countries and at the global level.