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"Mr President, I should like to thank the Commissioner for her announcement today. We look forward to the details of it when they are published. As has been said by the previous speaker – and I want to make the same point – 20% of our young people in Europe are unemployed, 40% of our employers have difficulty in finding those with relevant skills, and we also have long-term unemployed who do not have relevant skills.
It was the same story 20 years ago in the mid-1990s, when 15% of our young people were unemployed and they did not have the relevant skills. It is the same story, but it is something that we really need to address. Now we have an agenda focused on it, looking at our education and training sector, which is so important.
We need to involve industry and employers in our education schemes. It is not enough for them to give their opinions and to complain that they do not have the relevant skills. They need to be involved directly in apprenticeship models and in funding apprenticeship models as well, because it is in their own interest to ensure that they work to develop employees who have the relevant skills. I think that is very important.
I welcome and am delighted to hear that you underlined the EUR 27 billion funding that is available under the European Social Fund to support such skills development. I hope all the Member States will work and will take up that offer and develop the relevant training programmes for the necessary skills.
Of course, quality and measurement of that quality of education is very important. You mentioned that 70 million Europeans do not have the necessary reading, writing and numeracy skills – the three Rs. This is a matter of primary education skills, which is a matter for Member States, but it is something that needs to be taken seriously if we are to advance at all in the new type of economy that is demanded, particularly as we face the global challenges and the need to equip our workforce."@en1
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