(Hendrik Kafsack) The Member States of the European Union should guarantee all people aged less than 25 years in the future, within four months some form of employment. These governments should issue a so-called youth guarantee, as stated in a regulatory package that wants the department responsible Commissioner László Andor imagine this Wednesday in Brussels. Practical terms, the youth guarantee that adolescents than four months after the end of their training, or after the loss of their jobs for a new job, a new training course or at least have an internship. The implementation by States of the warranty is to remain largely up to them.
The European Commission is counting on the close cooperation of the social partners and the early involvement of the employment offices. The EU can support the government programs with money from the European Social Fund, says the draft. Considered as a model similar initiatives in Austria, the Netherlands and Norway. Finland and Luxembourg lead the youth guarantee similar concepts straight. The federal government responded to the introduction of such advances warranty in Germany – some of the SPD – previously reserved and argued in this country is about little action because of the high quality of education and training the existing pact. This government and industry associations have agreed to provide education to every able and willing young people a job.
Sanctions are not intended
Main thrust of the Brussels proposal anyway are not Germany or other northern European EU countries, but the already long under high youth unemployment,the suffering of southern Europe. According to the Commission are currently looking at the EU as a whole 5.5 million young people a job. That’s more than a fifth of the age group. 7.5 million people under age 25 have neither a job nor any form of apprenticeship. The cost is estimated by the Commission to receive more than 150 billion euros, or about 1.2 percent of economic output. In Greece and Spain, the youth unemployment rate is more than 55 percent are particularly high. In Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary and Slovakia, it is more than 30 percent. One third of these young people is unemployed for more than twelve months.
As just the particularly affected by youth unemployment south-eastern European countries and partly to meet the youth guarantee is only approximate, Andor’s not clear from the proposal. Sanctions for countries that fail to meet the guarantee, are not provided. Anyway want Andor’s proposal initially present only in the less legally binding form of a recommendation. He was responding to the opposition of countries such as Britain and Sweden, who argue that the EU should not deal with issues such as youth unemployment in charge.