Topic: Youth Unemployment Crisis in Europe

"All your life, you've been told you're a golden prince. The future awaits: it's bright, it's
yours. You have a degree! You'll have a good job, a fine life. And then suddenly you find it's
not true." said Argyro Paraskeva, a graduate from Thessaloniki University, Greece, in
molecular biology, who hasnt worked since. This is what actually happens in EU because of
the economics recession since 2009. In February 2014, 5.392 million young persons under
the age of 25 in the EU were without a job. Italy believes that the youth unemployment
crisis in Europe is an important matter as Italy unemployment rates keep rising, this need to
be solved because it will increase the risk of poverty and lead to a domino effect.
German as one of the EU countries have their own way on tackling the unemployment, such
as by the dual education system. It combined apprenticeships in a company and vocational
education in vocational school, so the graduate will be ready to face the real condition and
can get jobs easier. But, lately theres a problem arising that only a few German companies
are willing to take apprentices, one of the reasons is because the training itself is very
expensive and the company must follow numerous regulations from the government. As
for Italy, we have our own unemployment policy that has been implemented, such as ASpI
(Assegno Sociale per lImpiego, i.e. Employment Social Allowance). It is a form of
compensation paid to workers who have been dismissed. But as the unemployment rates
keep rising, by July its 12.6%, this policy affect Italys public debt. So far there isnt any
policy that could help tackling the unemployment rates in EU fully.
After the economics recession, almost all the EU countries are broke. And if we look
thoroughly, one of the reasons why the youth has hard time getting jobs is because we are
too country-specific, there are different unemployment policies in EU countries. EU should
be a union so that we can get up and build our economics steadily like before, as we all
happened to suffer because of the recession. So we believe that all EU countries should
have the same policy for unemployment, so the youth can look for job easier since there are
more oppotunities for the youth. Because of that, we think that there should be a further
meetings to talk about this unemployment policy among the EU leaders.

Name: Amirah Hadi Aqilah
Country: Italy
Council: ILO
References
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/01/jobless-europe-young-qualified
http://www.bridgingeurope.net/why-is-youth-unemployment-in-the-eu-so-high.html
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/empl_portal/SSRinEU/Your%20social%20security%
20rights%20in%20Italy_en.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system