29. Calls on the Commission to enhance the role and responsibilities of the asset recovery offices (AROs) and to create the conditions for their having swifter and across-the-board access to information, in a manner fully consonant with data protection and fundamental rights; invites the Member States to support this raising of the profile of AROs, including by providing the appropriate resources, in view of the potential those offices have for recovering criminal assets; commends the work performed by the ARO platform so far, and encourages it to continue that work so that current best practices and the activities of those offices can ...[+++] be turned to full advantage across the EU;

There are hundreds of outstanding examples of social commitment among volunteers and the organizations they represent: the Regroupement Information Logement de Pointe Saint-Charles seeks to improve conditions in social housing and empower people to improve their living conditions; the Table de concertation Action-Gardien encourages groups and individuals to mobilize around social, political, economic and urban issues; the organization called J'apprends avec mon enfant works with young people to prevent them from dropping out of school and promote the joy of reading; the Réseau d'entraide de Verdun does food security work with disadvan ...[+++]taged people in the community; DESTA Black Youth Network offers mentoring for marginalized young adults in the areas of education, employment and personal growth; the Centre communautaire des femmes actives offers a full range of activities to break down isolation and develop greater autonomy among women in Saint-Henri and the surrounding neighbourhoods.

I think that the work in relation to early school leaving has got off to a good start under the Belgian Presidency and that subsequent presidencies, the Hungarian Presidency in particular, will certainly be able to initiate a draft recommendation, not only to reduce the early school-leaving rate, but also to draw conclusions from this mapping of the 27 Member States about what becomes of those pupils who leave school early, in particular, when they are marginalised and when they are not picked up by a more vocational education system, as you point out.

Belgium has still not recovered all the aid in question.

However, in the Commission's view, this law still does not recover all the "Maribel" aid.

In some places I have visited there is a dropout rate in excess of 85 per cent. Those children who make it into the system, who make it through high school and who make it through university are in an alien, foreign environment.