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"Madam President, first of all I would like to compliment my colleague Ms Hübner for bringing forward a very topical and timely oral question. The economic crisis has absolutely devastated youth employment. The statistics are frightening: youth employment stands at less than 10% in only three countries: Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. Elsewhere it is more dramatic. In the Baltic for example, in Ireland, in Greece and in Slovakia unemployment among young people stands at 30% or above, and in Spain it is more than 40%. This is a brain drain that we cannot afford.
We are an ageing Community; we need young people, we need a workforce that is able to meet the challenges from the low-cost economies. In order to end that brain drain we need to provide opportunities for our young people. They are young, they are intelligent – many of them educated – but we must be able to keep them here.
In my own country we have an economic crisis, which, thankfully we are getting out of. But the vast majority of young people educated in Ireland, many of them with third-level degrees, many with master’s degrees, some of them with doctorates, have gone to Australia or to Canada and, in many cases, unfortunately, they will not come back.
A lot of them paid tribute – or at least lip service – to the SME sector. And of course this is a vital component which, in my country accounts for 60% of jobs. But I fully concur with my colleague Seán Kelly: if you are introducing schemes make them flexible, and in the name of heaven do not strangle them with bureaucracy and red tape. Too many excellent programmes and schemes coming from Europe have died the death because of a lack of flexibility and because of red tape."@en1
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