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"Mr President, ‘history will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children’, to quote Nelson Mandela and, let me add, ‘young people’. They are still paying the price of the economic and debt crises. The study already referred to yesterday underscores the point. In the EU, 26 million children and young people are threatened by poverty and social exclusion. This is a reality that we are painfully aware of in the UK, in the same way as elsewhere in Europe.
We have 750 000 young people out of a job and they are three times more likely to be unemployed than the rest of the population, the largest gap in more than 20 years. So let this review should be a wake-up call to get our priorities right. Yes, we do have a Youth Guarantee, but more needs to be done.
If the Commission had a more ambitious reform of economic governance rules that gave employment and the social agenda a higher priority, at least one that put them on par with economic and fiscal governance, then we might get some progress. The same goes for the migration crisis, which has to be one of our EU 2020 goals, because only an ambitious humanistic approach can resolve this and make a difference."@en1
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