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"Madam President, the reason we are here this evening is to ask searching questions about the Youth Employment Initiative. Some of those questions have been put already. They include: why has the uptake been so slow, what is the delay, what improvements can we expect, and when?
I do not need to quote the youth unemployment figures. All of us in this House know that they are unacceptably high. The EU institutions have put forward the Youth Employment Initiative as their response to youth unemployment. We are supposed to be adding value at European level and yet, so far, unfortunately, there seems to be little European added value.
If we are to be successful, the Council must play its role (and it is a hugely important role) in implementing the Youth Employment Initiative. There is plenty of flexibility within the Youth Employment Initiative: the possibility to provide traineeships and apprenticeships, the provision of first job experience, targeted and well-designed wage and recruitment subsidies, job and training mobility measures and start-up support for young entrepreneurs.
The Council has already told us that the Youth Employment Initiative and the Youth Guarantee are not a panacea. We know that, but they are substantial and the reason we are pushing the Council is because we are genuinely concerned about the delay regarding this issue of youth unemployment. As our question says, we are expecting a quick, efficient and result-oriented use of the additional pre-financing.
My colleague, Anthea McIntyre, has spoken about the issues raised by the Court of Auditors in regard to the Youth Guarantee. We have already had an exchange of views with the Court of Auditors and some of these issues need to be addressed: the fact that there was no proper ex-ante assessment carried out and that Member States did not provide accurate and complete information in regard to the source of funding used to support their Youth Guarantee implementation plans. These issues need to be addressed but, crucially, we are expecting Member States to take on their full responsibility and immediately implement the Youth Employment Initiative."@en1
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