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"Madam President, may I take the opportunity to welcome you to the chair and encourage you to keep people to their speaking times. I will try to do my best.
I am really pleased that our first proper session of this Parliament is concentrating on this really important issue of youth unemployment – or youth employment if you want to be positive – and I would like to thank Commissioner Andor for his words.
It is indeed encouraging that Mr Juncker has put job creation as his top priority, but we have to recognise that it is not the Commission that creates jobs, it is not Parliament that creates jobs, it is not even the Member States’ governments that create jobs. It is businesses that create jobs. SMEs create 85% of new jobs across Europe. So our job must be to create an environment where businesses can grow and can create jobs, and businesses will only create more jobs and recruit more people if the economic environment encourages growth: if they can rely on a qualified workforce, if labour markets are sufficiently flexible, if labour costs, including wages, are in line with productivity, if social protection systems make work more attractive, and if regulation is proportionate and evidence-based.
We have seen a trend towards more skill-intensive jobs – almost 90% of the jobs expected to be created and become vacant by 2020 require medium or high qualifications – and Europe’s education and training systems are not adapted to the business skills needs that we will need in the future years. We need a better supply of science, technology, engineering and maths skills, the stem subjects, and those are currently not going to match the increasing demands of business. There are encouraging signs and companies are bringing jobs back. We just have to encourage them."@en1
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