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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I should stress how important it is that the European Youth Pact should cover a wide area. The needs of the young have to be taken into account in all relevant policy areas. For example, in attempting to improve employment for young people, it may be important to enact various measures removing barriers to education and mobility.
The question by the honourable Member relates in particular to how the Finnish Presidency intends to support the commitments of the governments of the Member States to improve employment. The Member States are responsible for planning and implementing their own employment policies, including those concerning young people. Member States are also responsible for most of the other policies connected with this issue, such as education policy.
The Presidency may nevertheless have an important job to do in raising these issues, especially while the work of the Council of Ministers is being organised. During the Finnish presidential term, the Council convening in December intends to deal with several questions directly connected with employment of young people. The Council will be presented with a report by the Employment Committee which examines the Member States’ national reform programmes, including their employment policies. The result of the survey by the Employment Committee just last year was that all the Member States tackled youth unemployment with reference to the Youth Pact and mentioned a raft of measures that had been introduced to build appropriate paths to employment for the young. There had been very great progress made in linking this to another priority area, the investment in human capital. This had been done, for example, by developing the transition from education to employment.
Finland expects that the Member States’ employment policies this year will also focus attention on resources for youth employment and ways of improving it. Youth employment is also certainly high up on the agenda in the talks to be held by the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council on 1 December on demography and enhancing productivity through more and better jobs.
During the Finnish presidential term, the Council will discuss two issues that directly relate to improving employment for young people. Firstly, improving opportunities for lifelong learning is something that affects everyone, including the young. Secondly, the Finnish Presidency will try to propose concrete measures to improve accessibility to young people’s information services and provide quality information for all young people on important matters such as employment. Special attention needs to be paid to deprived young people.
In March, the European Council asked Member States to include young people and youth organisations in the implementation process relating to the European Youth Pact. The Finnish Presidency proposes to discuss initiation of an analytical dialogue at Council level with and between all youth sector actors, including young people and youth organisations.
To sum up, I will say that during the Finnish presidential term the matter of improving youth employment will be on the Council’s agenda in many connections. Finland urges all Member States to focus attention henceforth on the European Youth Pact and on the various ways of improving youth employment."@en1
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