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"Mr President, it is almost six months now since the Irish Presidency promised to place youth unemployment at the centre of its agenda. How has that worked out? Well, youth unemployment has increased. Now one in four young people across the EU do not have a job. Youth unemployment stands at 60 % in Spain and over 60 % in Greece, and the army of 120 000 young people who have left Ireland tells its own story there.
Now we have the youth employment initiative. It reminds me of what Edmund Burke said about hypocrisy – that ‘it can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing’. This initiative is an attempt to create the impression that you are doing something about the crisis, but is completely underfunded, with EUR 6 billion rather than the EUR 21 billion which even the ILO said was the minimum required. It places the blame on young people, who are being told that they do not have enough training or experience.
We do not need more schemes – free labour schemes like the JobBridge scheme in Ireland – just providing free labour for big business. We need an end to austerity and we need massive investment to create jobs, put people back to work and redevelop our economies."@en1
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