EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL POLICY COUNCIL : SUPPORT FOR UNEMPLOYED YOUNG PEOPLE IN PIPELINE.

All unemployed persons aged under 25 may soon be entitled to an apprenticeship, training or a job within four months of losing their job or leaving formal education. The employment and social affairs ministers agreed, on 28 February, on a draft Council recommendation on establishing a youth guarantee in every member state as from 2014. "This is not about parking young people in just any training scheme to take them out of the unemployment statistics. The goal is to offer them a real job or to give them the skills they need, through training and apprenticeship, to land a job," commented Luxembourg's Minister for Labour, Employment and Immigration, Nicolas Schmit, after the meeting.

The recommendation...