Artigo publicado no jornal Público de 5 de Março

António José Seguro (Secretário Geral do Partido Socialista)
Sergei Stanishev (Presidente PSE)

Quando a campanha do Partido Socialista Europeu (PSE), das Mulheres do PSE (PES Women) e da ECOSY (Jovens Socialistas Europeus) "O teu Futuro é o meu Futuro - Uma Garantia Europeia para os jovens Já!" deu os seus primeiros passos. Sabíamos estar a construir um compromisso ambicioso e de longo prazo. A nossa campanha começou, oficialmente, há um ano atrás e, desde então, temos lutado, quer no plano europeu quer a nível nacional, pelo seu sucesso, batalha para a qual contámos sempre com a ajuda de milhares de Activistas do PSE e com o apoio fundamental de toda a nossa família socialista europeia.

Campaign update n°5

Thanks to your engagement and your action, the campaign for a European Youth Guarantee continues to get more and more visible not only in Europe but also around the world.

• French President François Hollande has endorsed the campaign for a Youth Guarantee in a video statement. He calls for the implementation of such a guarantee at EU level as a way of providing jobs for the youth as well as investing in education and training of young people
  
  
• As a European Youth Guarantee seems more and more likely, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is now calling for a universal Youth Guarantee. Together with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, the ILO is promoting an online discussion on "Youth Guarantees in Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities” that you can join until November 19. The PES has already participated in an online talk show on this issue
  
  
• In Germany the Social Democrats presented in the Bundestag a proposal to put into practice a Youth Guarantee. Conservative and liberals in power, stuck on their austerity-only policy, rejected these progressive proposals, but our campaigners won’t give up and are preparing new actions
  
  
• The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has released a new study on young people not in employment, education or training in the EU. The report points that the costs of having 33% young people without an occupation exceed 15 billion euros a year (with an overall cost of youth unemployment of 153 billion euro) and underlines the urgent need to put into practice concrete measures such as a European Youth Guarantee to reverse the situation
  
  
• Reacting to the Eurofound study, German MEP Jutta Steinruck called on the European Council and the Commission to prioritize long-term thinking in tackling the European youth unemployment and to implement a European Youth Guarantee. Evelyn Regner MEP also suggested that the Austrian flagship policy of a youth guarantee could be used at European level to provide jobs and/or training for young people all over the EU
  
  
• Campaign supporters in Bulgaria organized a debate on youth unemployment in Ruse. Participants shared their views on problems facing young people trying to enter the labour market; PES President Sergei Stanishev outlined how implementing a European Youth Guarantee could help tackling youth unemployment
  
  
• Newly elected leader of Portuguese Socialist Youth pointed to the Youth Guarantee as one of the best ways to bring youth unemployment down – currently 35% of Portuguese young people cannot find a job and are facing a very precarious situation

You too can let us know about your story; tell us how you are contributing to the campaign and join the thousands of campaigners calling for a European Youth Guarantee.
Remember, your support is key to tackle youth unemployment in Europe!

COMING UP

9-10 November
Campaign stand at SDLP Congress Armagh, Northern Ireland

30 November - 2 December
Getting Europe Working: Youth unemployment summit - Notthingham, UK

3 December
Youth employment in Europe – what works?; The Austrian example, Brussels, Belgium

Numa das suas primeiras entrevistas como novo Secretário Geral da Juventude Socialista (JS), João Torres defende uma garantia europeia para os jovens. 

Num contexto de crise que toca de forma particularmente dura os jovens, o líder da JS sublinha a importância de adoptar uma garantia para os jovens, de forma a combater a precariedade e o desemprego jovem em Portugal (35% de jovens desempregados em Setembro 2012).

Campaign update n°2

Last week we told you about the progress of the European Youth Guarantee campaign over the summer.

The support for a European Youth Guarantee is growing by the day and campaigners like you are now organizing events all over Europe to promote it:

• In Spain and in Portugal, PSOE and PS presented in their national parliaments draft resolutions to make the Youth Guarantee a reality in their countries. The conservative governments, stuck on their austerity ways, rejected these progressive proposals, but our campaigners won’t give up; they will present the Youth Guarantee to trade unions, NGOs and civil society associations in order to create public pressure to implement it.
• In Ireland, on September  8^th, Labour Youth gathered numerous of participants in a seminar to discuss how to reverse the high level of youth unemployment (1 out of 3 young people can’t find a job) and stop the emigration of youth. The speakers - including Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn, Emer Costello MEP and John Lyons MP - and the audience concluded that a Youth Guarantee can be part of the solution and make a difference to the lives of young people in Ireland.

• Also on September  8^th Bulgarian campaigners organized a meeting near Plovdiv, the second biggest city of Bulgaria. Among the conclusions, the participants proposed that the years spent studying are taken into account for pension purposes.

At EU level, thanks to the commitment of Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Laszlo Andor, the European Commission has put forward a concrete funding opportunity to introduce youth guarantees.

You too can join the thousands of campaigners calling for a European Youth Guarantee. Remember, your support is key to tackle youth unemployment in Europe. 

Check back next week, when we will have news on developments on France, UK, Finland and EU Committee of the Regions.

COMING UP
27^th September 
10.30-18.30 - PES Women Annual Conference - Combating Young Women's Unemployment

29^th September 
13h00-14h30 - Youth Unemployment Campaign meeting (as part of PES Congress)

Original article

A Juventude Socialista (JS) considerou hoje que o Impulso Jovem "não está a funcionar" e pediu ao Governo para "emendar a mão" e rever o financiamento e as regras do programa, insistindo ainda na garantia de estágios para jovens desempregados.

The Socialist Party (PS) of Portugal has demanded concrete measures to foster employment and improve training and education systems on a national and European scale. In a draft resolution submitted by the PS Group in the Portuguese Parliament, Socialist MPs have strongly recommended the Government to adopt measures to create a youth guarantee.

Artigo de Nuno Sá em Acção Socialista

O Partido Socialista Europeu (PES) lançou uma grande iniciativa política sob o lema “O Teu Futuro é o Meu Futuro” que reclama a introdução de uma Garantia Europeia para os jovens na forma de um novo contrato social que lhes ofereça um emprego, um estágio ou prosseguimento de estudos, no máximo, quatro meses após conclusão do ciclo de estudos ou inscrição no centro de emprego.

A brochura e a moldura da campanha "O teu futuro é o meu futuro - uma Garantia europeia para os jovens" já estão disponíveis em Português.

Faz o download da brochura, imprime-a e distribui-a aos teus amigos.

Imprime a moldura da campanha, tira uma fotografia com ela e envia-nos o teu retrato através do nosso grupo Flickr. 

O vídeo da campanha agora também está disponível em Português: