On 01 July and as a new crisis looms in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Commission presented a package to support youth employment along with a New European Skills Agenda. Two documents set out the European Commission’s vision of addressing skills to enable all citizens access the labor market. In two other separate documents (both proposals for EU Council Recommendations), the European Commission suggests ways to reinforce the Youth Guarantee (which it renames ‘A Bridge to Jobs - Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee’) and improve vocational education and training (VET).
A Bridge to Jobs. In 2013, the European Council formally adopted the European Commission’s proposal for a Youth Guarantee, the goal of which is to ensure that all young people receive a good offer of apprenticeship, training, continued education or employment that is suited to their abilities and experience within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving education. However, for the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), this underfunded instrument has so far focused on quantity rather
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