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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10177
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/employment

Parliament wants to encourage employment of young people

Brussels, 08/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 6 July, the European Parliament (EP) voted on a report on measures to promote employment for young Europeans. In the EU in 2009, more than 5.5 million young people under 25 were unemployed, equivalent to 21.4 % of all young people, or double the EU unemployment level.

MEPs say that young people who are unemployed should not remain jobless for more than four months. They propose, then, that the Council and Commission devise a “European...

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