European Parliament
David Martin  (S&D ),
in writing.
– The crisis has had particularly dramatic consequences for the situation of young people trying to find stable employment. Young people face an unemployment rate of over 20% and more than 40% in some Member States. Between 2008 and 2010, the total number of young unemployed people in the EU increased by one million. The share of 15 to 24-year-olds neither in employment, education, or training (NEET) rose by 2 percentage points during the same period. While the AGS rightly makes the employment of young people a priority, your rapporteur is concerned about the quality of jobs, traineeships and apprenticeships that are suggested in the policy guidance of the Commission. I am pleased that the rapporteur wishes to make the fight against precarious work among young people a key part of youth employment policy guidance. Also, she suggests recalling the Commission’s ‘Youth on The Move’ flagship, in which it promised to propose a quality framework for traineeships.

