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"Youth unemployment in Europe is at 21% and currently affects more than 5.5 million young Europeans, who are at risk of social exclusion because of a lack of opportunities and are forced to accept insecure jobs. Training and education are the major challenges the European Union is currently facing, enshrined in the Europe 2020 strategy. The goals have been set of reducing the school drop-out rate to below 10% and enabling 40% of young people to complete higher education by 2020. These are fairly ambitious targets, but they are necessary for economic growth and for making the Member States more competitive, thereby creating jobs.
I voted for this report, since I think it is essential to have a long-term, EU-level strategy that also enables structural unemployment and youth unemployment to be tackled. To this end, I think it is important to continue supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, since they create 50% of jobs, and to invest in continuous, lifelong learning. Finally, I should like to mention the need to recognise vocational qualifications, thereby facilitating the increased mobility of professionals and students."@en1
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