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"Madam President, it seems to me that many Members of this place have forgotten that they claim to believe in the principle of subsidiarity. They have forgotten that decisions should be taken at the level closest to the citizen. The challenges facing each of the Member States are varied and different. In my constituency of the North-East of England, almost one in four young people are unemployed. We have the highest levels of youth unemployment in the UK. Our manufacturing industry, which was once the powerhouse of the region, has been decimated. It is European Union legislation which is preventing us from being competitive once more.
Competitiveness is what drives economies forward; it is what is needed to prevent jobs going overseas. In the UK we need to learn from other countries; we need to learn from Germany that there should be no stigma attached to manual jobs. We need to learn that young people should be taught to take as much pride from vocational as from academic routes. Most of all we need an education system that reflects the needs of industry and 21st Century society.
The free movement of workers, which means uncontrolled immigration, causes a massive problem in the UK. That principle might have worked when all EU countries had similar standards of living but, when we have Member States with a minimum wage of 80 pence an hour, migration to the UK becomes a big issue. It causes wage compression and it means experienced workers from other countries are able to take UK-based jobs and deprive British young people of their first step on the career ladder, and what we do not need is misguided European Union intervention.
As the President of the EPP’s Youth Wing, Costas Kyranakis, has said, the Youth Guarantee Fund is not working. The measures push short-term employment and short-term internships but, when only 9% of interns actually go on to get the job, this is not effective. The International Labour Organisation has said it is ineffective. The Youth Guarantee has come to mean guaranteed failure. Sometimes the answer is not more Europe. The answer is for countries to work together, for national governments to innovate, for us to learn from each other, to learn from best practice and to learn from the many charitable organisations which have a phenomenal success rate in getting young people back into work."@en1
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