MEP – Youth UnEmployment Project https://www.projects.aegee.org/yue Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:35:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.7 Irish Presidency of the EU: overview of priorities https://www.projects.aegee.org/yue/irish-presidency-of-the-eu-overview-of-priorities/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:15:18 +0000 http://www.projects.aegee.org/yue/?p=196 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:

Liam Aylward (Fianna Fáil) said: “Unemployment in the European Union and youth
unemployment, in particular, is currently at chronic levels and is the biggest challenge we
face. The Irish presidency must prioritise European citizens who need support and
investment to ensure that this generation and the next can find meaningful employment
and realise their full potential.”
Emer Costello (Labour) said: “Adoption by Council of the Recommendation for a Youth
Guarantee, recently launched by the European Commission, coupled with progress
towards ratification of the ILO Convention of Domestic Workers, would ensure Ireland a
progressive, action-orientated six-month presidency.”
Paul Murphy (Socialist Party): “I hope that the Irish EU presidency can focus international
attention on how austerity policies, such as those implemented in Ireland, do not work for
ordinary people and the economy as a whole. The holding of the presidency also gives
workers and the unemployed in Ireland a focal point to show their opposition to these
policies.”

]]> EP update: Employment MEPs urge ministers to back youth guarantee schemes https://www.projects.aegee.org/yue/ep-update-employment-meps-urge-ministers-to-back-youth-guarantee-schemes/ Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:29:38 +0000 http://www.projects.aegee.org/yue/?p=228

Employment MEPs urge ministers to back youth guarantee schemes

EMPL Youth / Employment policy − 18-12-2012 – 18:09

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, after four months of unemployment. Parliament had already twice called for such schemes.

EU funding

Youth Guarantee schemes should be eligible for EU funding -e.g. from the European Social Fund, especially in the member states with the highest youth unemployment rates, say MEPs.

Involving local authorities

To be effective, these schemes need to be implemented in close cooperation with local and regional authorities, adds the committee.

In the Chair: Pervenche Berès (S&D, FR)

REF.  : 20121214IPR04664

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