Youth Guarantee

27.2.2015

Question for written answer E-003228-15
to the Commission
Rule 130
Paloma López Bermejo (GUE/NGL)

The Youth Guarantee scheme was controversial right from the start, due both to the lack of a comprehensive strategy against youth unemployment — which left the solution to the problem, which the EU’s recommendations for labour reform and fiscal austerity have only made worse, up to the active policies — and to its lack of definition. This led to Member States departing significantly from good practice on active youth employment policies and even using the funds to support a general strategy of job insecurity or instead of earlier involvement in this field.

In addition to these problems there has also been a chaotic strategy of implementation, which has led the Commission to react by bringing forward disbursement of the funds budgeted for this scheme.

Bearing in mind the Commission’s own recommendations, does it consider that the trade unions' involvement in the implementation and monitoring of the Youth Guarantee scheme in the Member States, and particularly in Spain, has been satisfactory?

Does it consider that the implementation of the scheme in the Member States, and particularly in Spain, effectively contributes to reinforcing the active employment policies?

If not, what steps will it take to remedy the present situation?