YOUTH GUARANTEE: THREE COUNTRIES LAGGING.

• Position: Brief article

Twenty member states should have submitted their youth guarantee implementing plan by the end of 2013. As of 15 January, however, three countries had not yet presented the plan explaining how they will offer a job, continued education or a traineeship to inactive young people within four months of their losing a job or leaving formal education. According to Recommendation 2013/C 120/01 establishing the youth guarantee, all member states presenting a high youth unemployment rate (and de facto benefiting from the...