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"Madam President, what we are debating here is the European Youth Initiative, and we have calls for the EU to do this, that and the other to end the massive problems facing young people in finding a job. I suppose this is the same EU that has failed those young people. You only have to look at the employment figures for the Mediterranean eurozone members to realise that the EU and its initiatives have led to millions of young people being unable to find work, with Greece being the prime example with a 50% youth unemployment rate. We have seen billions of taxpayers’ money thrown at these countries and none of it has helped. How about Northern Europe? Well, of course, the elephant in the room there is immigration. While we have to compete with an open door to 450 million people to settle claim benefits and, crucially for this debate, compete for the same jobs, it will always be hard for young people to find work.
At the last European committee meeting we were talking about new legislation on EURES, which is a website that hit the headlines in the UK a few years ago for advertising 800 000 UK jobs across Europe. That was nearly 50% of all the jobs listed. The new rules obviously will expand the number of UK jobs listed and advertised, but more importantly, the EU wants to include work experience and apprenticeship places advertised across Europe as well. How on earth are young British workers and those fresh-faced out of education, with little experience or skills, meant to find a job? The EU, whatever it does, makes things worse. I just hope that it will one day listen to the voters who say they want no more meddling and waste, and no more EU bureaucracy."@en1
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