Pino Arlacchi (S&D), in writing. − I support this report because it emphasises that we need to tackle youth unemployment as a priority problem in the EU. In June 2013, 23.5 % of active young people were jobless, with the rates ranging from 10 % or less in Austria and Germany to 64.2 % in Greece. This situation has alarming consequences for young individuals, lowering their self-esteem, leaving their ambitions unrealised, reducing their earnings and career prospects, and delaying their opportunity to take up an independent adult life. For this reason we call on the Commission to develop a one-year relief plan to tackle youth unemployment by creating jobs for at least 10 % of the young people affected, and on national parliaments to hold their governments responsible for delivering on the Youth Guarantee scheme, and to ensure that serious steps are taken to ensure that each young person (unemployed or having left formal education) will within four months receive either a good-quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship.