Commissioner Schmit’s push to ensure youth employment is a priority for the EU’s recovery strategy is timely and highly necessary, PES President Sergei Stanishev said today. Since the onset of this pandemic, the PES has ramped up its calls for the EU to extend and strengthen the policies socialists and democrats introduced after the last crisis.

The COVID19 outbreak has already had a strong socio-economic impact. Despite mitigating measures taken in Member States, it has triggered a strong rise in unemployment and its impact is likely to be long lasting. The situation for young people is particularly worrying. To prevent a repetition of the 2010s youth unemployment crisis, the EU must act quickly.

Since the beginning of the crisis, Socialists and democrats have called for youth employment to be a central element of the EU recovery.

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