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Labour Youth are proud to campaign for the PES/ECOSY proposal for a European Youth Guarantee.  This is an excellent proposal, which is now being considered by the European Commission.  Under the proposed Youth Guarantee, every young person in Europe will be offered a job, further education or a work-related internship following four months of unemployment.

On 8 September, Labour Youth, Emer Costello MEP and John Lyons TD held a public meeting in Dublin on the European Youth Guarantee.

Last Saturday, September 8th, I hosted a seminar on the 'Youth Guarantee' in conjunction with Labour Youth and John Lyons TD.

The Youth Guarantee is a straight forward solution to the growing social problem of youth unemployment. It would offer every young person a job, further education or work-focused training at the latest four months after leaving education or after becoming unemployed.

Over thirty percent youth unemployment in Ireland, a hemorrhage of Irish youth emigrating from our country in search of work and a government struggling to restore the Irish economy in the face of painful austerity policies imposed by the EU, ECB and IMF. This has led to an unprecedented level of cynicism and distrust of politics in Ireland and a broad feeling that there is little that we can do to improve the life chances of our young people at this time.

Article by Glenis Willmott, Labour Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands since 2006 and Labour’s Leader in Europe.

There has always been an assumption that the younger generation is more pro-European than those of us who are rather longer in the tooth. 

There’s probably some truth in that generalisation. Opportunities that many younger people have had in Europe, for travel, and even for study or work, have been greater than for previous generations. Not surprisingly this has encouraged a more open-minded approach towards people from other countries, a more tolerant attitude towards different cultures, and a more positive view of the European Union.

Junge Menschen sollen spätestens vier Monate nach Abschluss ihrer Ausbildung oder nach Eintritt in die Arbeitslosigkeit (wieder) arbeiten können. Das ist Ziel einer Europäischen Jugendgarantie, für die sich die SPE, die Sozialdemokratische Partei Europas, einsetzt. Die Kampagne wird auch von SPD-Europaabgeordneten unterstützt.

Welsh Labour Euro MP, DEREK VAUGHAN, has backed calls for a European Youth Guarantee that would provide every young person in the EU with a job, further education or a training place at the latest four months after leaving education or after becoming unemployed.

The European Youth Guarantee scheme proposed by PES (Party of European Socialists) is designed to help the 5.5 million young people in the EU currently without a job.

Peter Skinner MEP (Labour Party, UK) addresses a Partit Laburista (PL, Malta) town meeting and endorses PL pledge for education, training and employment of youth.

Pervenche Berès MEP has proposed a European Youth Guarantee in a resolution approved by the European Parliament on 24 May.

The MEPs are calling for the reallocation of EU structural funds to projects capable of creating jobs for young people, and asking for a "European Youth Guarantee" to be implemented. This guarantee is already defended by the PES and it would ensure that young people are not without jobs for more than four months.

More information on the "Youth opportunities initiative" resolution

MEP Emer Costello (Labour Party, Ireland) supports a European Youth Guarantee during a debate on the "Youth Opportunity initiative" resolution - in the European Parliament.

“Your future is my future – a European Youth Guarantee now” 

PES - Socialdemokraterna i EU lanserar idag en kampanj mot ungdomsarbetslösheten. 5,5 miljoner ungdomar är idag arbetslösa i Europa och ytterligare 1,5 miljoner unga tvingas till att ta otrygga jobb. I vissa länder i Europa är situationen så pass allvarlig att en av två unga är utan arbete.