On 24th September CESI Youth Board met online. Youth employment and COVID-19, access to social protection schemes, the EU Green Deal and the upcoming CESI Congress in December 2020 were the main topics of the discussion.

Younger generations are preparing themselves for the second hit of their lives. After alarming levels of youth unemployment provoked by the 2008 financial crisis, these levels are once again skyrocketing, especially in Southern Europe, because of the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. CESI Youth board welcomed the timely reinforced Youth Guarantee, which was the subject of the online conference co-organised with StartNet and the European Youth Forum in July 2020. Nevertheless, these numbers will continue to rise if more is not done.

“It is time we think of the people behind the figures: the friends who already lost their jobs, those who might not be able to pay for university, those scarred with the fear of uncertainty. It is of the faces behind the numbers we need to think when adopting new policies”, commented CESI Youth Representative, Matthäus Fandrejewski.

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