Alejandro Cercas (S&D). – (ES) Mr President, Commissioner, the Commission has finally made an intelligent declaration: there will be no recovery without a job creation strategy. Thank you for initiating this debate and for the stated action plan; you will have all our support.

Your communication is not enough, however, Commissioner. The problem is too serious for the measures announced by the Commission. I will briefly make two comments given that I only have a few seconds. The first is that this communication has to overcome the contradictions between the EU’s public policies. You cannot request, and rightly request, for example, that funds are reused when Member States that have problems do not have funds to cofinance the actions, as other EU policies restrict the spending of this money on training or productive investments. Labour reforms cannot be requested at the same time as applauding labour reforms that destroy jobs. Above all Commissioner, we need a real guarantee from Europe for young people, a European guarantee; do not leave it to the Member States, as those in most difficulty will not be able to do anything. The EU has allocated EUR 100 billion to saving five banks in my country. Use EUR 10 billion, 10 times less, to save five million young Europeans. That would be genuine action.