Paris, 22/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Jeunes Europeens-France, youth branch of the European Movement, will gather from 26 to 28 April, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, 626 students from 31 European countries (the EU Member States, the accession candidate countries, Switzerland, Norway and several Balkan countries) to draft and adopt the European Charter of Student Rights and Obligations. "The stake of the next decade is to build a political Europe. We believe that it is crucial to remind youths in general and students in particular that it will be for them, us, to build that Europe", asserts the youth branch of the European Movement. On 28 April, during a plenary on "the student citizen in Europe", the theme of European cultural identity will be raised, and, during another plenary, on "Rights and obligations of the European student", they will broach the theme of the European democratic area and, in particular, the need for a student force to make proposals to leaders to explain their vision of the future and the main problems to which they are confronted (unemployment, violence, intolerance, environmental degradation). Saturday, in the late afternoon, the participation will vote on the "Strasbourg Charter".