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.

Plans for “youth guarantee” schemes to ensure that no young person in the EU is without a job for more than four months won strong support in the Employment and Social Affairs Committee on Tuesday. MEPs voted a resolution calling on EU employment ministers to agree in February 2013 to a Council recommendation that all member states introduce these schemes.

A youth guarantee is not a job guarantee, underlines the resolution drafted by Pervenche Berès (S&D, FR), but an instrument ensuring that all young EU citizens and legal residents up to  25 years old and recent graduates under 30, receive a good-quality offer of employment, continued education or apprenticeship, afte...