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Not the empty rhetoric of the ‘Merkozy proposal’ The Party of European Socialists (PES) has called for genuine European action on the youth unemployment crisis to be one of the main conclusions of the EU summit on Monday (30th January). The party has also heavily criticised the ‘empty proposals’ on the topic by German Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy.

De jeugdwerkloosheid lijkt me een revolutionaire factor in de huidige kapitalistische conjunctuur. Er zijn dus revolutionaire maatregelen nodig.

PES President, Sergei Stanishev said that, after a year of high-level political consultation, the PES has a detailed plan to tackle youth unemployment. “Youth unemployment costs the European Union 2 billion euros per week” said the PES President, “A Europe-wide youth guarantee should be introduced, ensuring that every young person in Europe must be offered a job, further education or work-focused training, at the latest four months after leaving education or after becoming unemployed. The EU must invest the necessary funds to lift at least 2 million young people out of unemployment by the end of 2014.”

Redelijke voorstellen. Die misschien niet ver genoeg gaan qua aantal

He contrasted this sharply with the proposals by Merkel and Sarkozy which he said made “vague and non-committal references to youth unemployment”. Mr. Stanishev said that; “European people are not stupid. They have seen French and German leaders expend enormous political capital to create a harsh “austerity” treaty. No one is fooled by this last minute, hastily drafted, “Merkozy” paper on youth unemployment, which neither foresees investments into young people, nor concrete legislation. This paper is just ‘mood music’ designed to distract people from their harsh agenda of cuts, deregulation and liberalisation”.

Een link naar, of een saamenvatting van die mood music zou welkom zijn

In contrast, the detailed PES proposal, formulated by the PES high level working group on youth unemployment, calls for the introduction of the Youth guarantee no later than end 2013

Zo snel mogelijk is beter

. In recent years, the social democratic parties of Austria and Finland implemented such a youth guarantee, with great success. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and Finish Vice-Prime Minister Jutta Urpilainen have been championing the idea at European level. Werner Faymann called on the European Council and the European Commission to invest 10 billion Euros from unspent European Social Fund resources to create 2 million new jobs for young people in Europe.

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The social democratic principles of this scheme is echoed in a pre-Christmas Commission communication, initiated by EU social affairs Commissioner, Lazlo Andor. In the 21 December paper, entitled Youth opportunities initiative, the Hungarian social democrat outlines the need for concrete actions.

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Background note
PES Youth Employment Campaign

At the moment, around 5,6 million young people in the EU are unemployed – a figure equal to the entire population of Denmark. The crisis has hit young people disproportionally high, increasing their unemployment twice as much as the adult rate (22% compared with 9.8%). In countries like Spain and Greece the situation is even worse, with nearly half of the young people out of work. Moreover, many of those who are in employment work in low-quality jobs and barely have social security. Tackling youth unemployment is a precondition for re-launching growth, for balancing budgets and for avoiding a social catastrophe.

Toch heeft bijna nog niemand bij de elite goed begrepen dat het evnagelie van de groei apocrief geworden is. En nog minder hebben ze begrepen dat dit een goeie zaak is en vele kansen geeft op een volledige duurzame reorganisatie van de samenleving op halflange termijn..

In order to achieve real progress and prevent the loss of an entire generation, the PES will launch a youth employment campaign. The campaign intends to raise awareness of the Youth guarantee and implement political solutions in coordination with member parties and civil society. The PES will work closely with its partners in all EU institutions, trade unions, social and youth NGOs, to improve the conditions for reducing youth unemployment in Europe. The PES will also encourage its member parties to organise national round tables in order to develop solutions tailored to their countries, bringing the results together in a major conference in November this year.

Jaja, praat maar hard en snel door. In Spanje hebben de socialisten daarvoor 8 jaar gehad en ze hebben er niets van gebakken.