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Work on Youth Guarantee: the practice of the National Youth Council of Ireland

February 4, 2013 Posted in Home, News

The National Youth Council of Ireland has been doing a lot of work on a national level on the youth guarantee and has been working closely with the Youth Forum on youth employment in the context of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU.

NYCI have launched a Fact-sheet on the youth guarantee in Ireland and have been strongly advocating the policy to both the government and opposition parties. Currently NYCI and the Spanish Youth Council have produced materials on the youth guarantee nationally and many other youth councils have been writing to government Ministers and advocating the potential benefits of the youth guarantee in their country.

Please find an interesting infographic at the link here

Joint Event Eurofound-YouthIntergroup-European Youth Forum

January 29, 2013 Posted in Home, News

Save-the-date: 28th February 2013, European Parliament, Brussels

»Youth Disengagement – what costs and what remedies?«

A discussion with policy makers and stakeholders, jointly organised by the Eurofound and the European Youth Forum. Hosted by the European Parliament “Youth Intergroup”.

This joint ...

Youth Employment developments: France

January 28, 2013 Posted in Home, News

Here you will find some information on some developments in youth employment policy in France.

French President François Hollande was elected on 6 May 2012, and right from the beginning he asserted that he wanted to be judged on two issues: justice and youth. Currently one in four young people are out of work in France and the poverty rate for young people is twice that of the rest of the population.

The government has began to make proposals and an inter-ministerial committee will make unveil a finalised youth strategy on 21 February. Two priorities have already been established youth: education and employment.

Today the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on EU employment ministers to agree in February 2013 to a Council recommendation that all member states introduce these schemes.

The resolution was adopted with 546 votes in favour, 96 against and 28 abstentions.

Importantly the Resolution said that Youth Guarantee schemes should be eligible for EU funding, in particular from the European Social Fund, which should therefore be allocated at least 25% of EU structural funds. The Parliament also calls on the Commission to help those member states that are in dire financial straits to introduce the schemes.

The Resolution was introduced by Pervènche Beres, you can watch a video of the highlights of the debate from Monday at the following link (Debate in French, English, German...

Effectiveness of policy measures to increase the employment participation of young people

January 11, 2013 Posted in News

Here you will find a very important and informative study that has been carried out by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound). As you know Eurofound has been focusing quite a lot on youth employment recently and has launched two comprehensive studies on NEETs. In the coming months it will also release new studies on the social inclusion of young people.

Earlier this week Eurofound published a report on the ‘Effectiveness of policy measures to increase the employment participation of young people’. This study finds that Member States have implemented a set of diverse measures to combat youth unemployment...

European Parliament resolution on a Youth Guarantee (2012/2901(RSP))

January 10, 2013 Posted in News

French Socialist MEP Pervenche Berès has introduced a proposal for a Resolution in the European Parliament supporting the Proposal of the European Commission for a Youth Guarantee.

The Resolution calls on Member States to introduce a youth guarantee and for 25% of the European Social Fund to be used to finance the mechanism.

It is important to emphasise that in the Commission’s proposal it emphasised the role of youth organisations in the design and implementation of the Youth Guarantee. This must be supported by the Member States.

With regards to this Resolution, there will be a debate on it in the European Parliament on 14 January and a vote will be taken on 16 January. The full proposal for a resolution in English is here.

ILO launches global photo contest “WORK4YOUTH”

January 9, 2013 Posted in Home, News

The ILO Youth Employment Programme is organizing a photo contest to shed light on youth employment issues, the challenges young people face in the workplace as well as their power to overcome them. Zoom in for the top prize!

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Irish Presidency of the EU: overview of priorities

January 9, 2013 Posted in Home, News

Here you will find the Irish Presidency of the EU overview of priorities: youth unemployment is one of the main features.

In the EU Article attached Irish MEPs have defined their different hopes for the Irish Presidency, two of the MEPs listed the youth unemployment issue as their top priority and another focused on austerity measures:

Employment and Social Developments in Europe Review

January 9, 2013 Posted in Home, News

Yesterday the European Commission launched the 2012 edition of the Employment and Social Developments in Europe Review. This is a very interesting document for anyone interested in employment or social inclusion policy in Europe. The Report itself it very long, so if you don’t have the time it takes to read it I have attached the FAQ document, which includes a really good synopsis and explanation of the reason why there is growing poverty and divergence between the North and South of Europe.

The Full report can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=738&langId=en&pubId=7315

A frequent question that people working on youth employment is why should young people have specific policies and investment, well this question is very aptly addressed in the report...

Eurozone unemployment reaches new high

January 8, 2013 Posted in Home, News

The unemployment rate across the eurozone hit a new all-time high of 11.8% in November, official figures have shown.

This is a slight rise on 11.7% for the 17-nation region in October. The rate for the European Union as a whole in November was unchanged at 10.7%.

Spain, which is mired in deep recession, again recorded the highest unemployment rate, coming in at 26.6%.

More than 26 million people are now unemployed across the EU.

For the eurozone, the number of people without work reached 18.8 million said Eurostat, the official European statistics agency said.

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