| Author (Corporate) | European Commission |
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| Series Title | COM |
| Series Details | (2012) 729 final (5.12.12) |
| Publication Date | 05/12/2012 |
| Content Type | Policy-making |
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High and increasing youth unemployment has dramatic consequences for our economies, our societies and young people themselves. The youth unemployment rate across the EU has reached a high level of 22.7% (third quarter 2012), twice as high as the adult rate, and prospects do not show any reversing trend. Around 5.5 million young people are unemployed and more than 7.5 million young people under 25 are currently not in employment, education or training (NEETs). The Commission has adopted this proposal for a Council Recommendation to ensure that young people receive a quality offer of employment, further education or training within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education. The proposal also sets out how a Youth Guarantee scheme should be set up. The proposal lists guidelines on the basis of six axes - establishing strong partnerships with all stakeholders, ensuring early intervention and activation to avoid young people becoming NEETs, taking supportive measures that will enable labour integration, making full use of EU funding to that end, assessing and continuously improving the Youth Guarantee schemes, and implementing the schemes rapidly. The proposal also outlines how the Commission will support Member States' action: the EU funding framework, the exchange of good practices among Member States, monitoring of Member States' actions within the European Semester exercise and supporting awareness raising activities. The proposal is accompanied by a Staff Working Document (SWD), which goes into more details about what constitutes a Youth Guarantee, addresses questions about costs and benefits of such schemes, and describes one by one the ingredients necessary to make the Youth Guarantee a success. Furthermore, in an annex, the SWD presents policies supporting youth employment already in place in the 27 Member States and Croatia, reflecting the various starting points of these countries towards setting up fully-fledged Youth Guarantee schemes. |
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| Source Link | http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0729:FIN:EN:PDF |
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| Subject Categories | Employment and Social Affairs, Geography |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
