The European Commission published a new roadmap on Thursday 29 July to review the EU Council Recommendation on a quality framework for traineeships. It had undertaken to do so in response to criticism from MEPs last October (see EUROPE B12577A17).
In particular, MEPs had insisted on the need to ensure that traineeships under the ‘Youth Guarantee’ (see EUROPE B12517A6) are paid and limited in duration and number “so that young people are not trapped in never-ending repeated...