"Brexit Britain continues to outperform the EU by a very long way"

EU accidentally provides classic example of how the UK ‘works’ and the EU doesn’t

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Jobless youth forgotten as EU trumpets plan to engage in "euro-babble" with young people worldwide

Yesterday the EU Commission released a classic press statement which encapsulates its globalist mentality.

In this, its ‘European Year of Youth 2022’, the EU talks in vague slogans about what it will do for the young people of the world, while ignoring the persistent problem of its own young people not being able to find a job.

Facts4EU.Org once again lifts the lid on the EU Commission’s apparent lack of interest in supporting policies which might enable young EU27 people to get jobs and start building their lives.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Youth unemployment – UK versus the EU

Unemployed people aged 16-24 not in employment, education or training (‘NEETs’) in 2021

1. The worst places to be young in the EU – if you want a job

[Sources: EU Commission | UK Office for National Statistics]

2. The UK versus the EU27 average

EU27 average : 16.6%
UK : 10.2%

[Sources: EU Commission | UK Office for National Statistics]

What did the EU Commission announce yesterday?

The title of the EU’s announcement was “European Year of Youth 2022: EU adopts the first Youth Action Plan in EU External Action to strengthen engagement with young people worldwide”. Apparently this Action Plan will deliver the following:-

“...the first-ever policy framework for a strategic partnership with young people around the world to build a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable future. It will help deliver on international commitments, such as the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement, by enhancing meaningful youth participation and empowerment in the EU's external action policies.”

What the EU's Commissioners said yesterday

The EU Commission’s Vice-President and de facto Foreign and Defence Secretary, Josep Borrell, talked of:

“rising inequalities and global challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation or the COVID-19 pandemic. It is our responsibility to ensure that youth have the tools and opportunities needed to fully develop and participate in everyday life.”

The EU Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, Dubravka Šuica, said:

“…The Youth Action Plan will be an important contribution to our pursuit of intergenerational solidarity and equity. We need to empower children and young people across the world, ensure that they have concrete opportunities and promote the effective engagement of young people and children as a right.”

Not to be outdone, the EU Commissioner for International Partnership, Jutta Urpilainen, added:

“The Youth Action Plan lives up to our commitment to putting youth at the centre of the EU's external action for sustainable development, equality, and peace and giving them a real voice to shape the solutions for a better future. We have heard young people and will meaningfully engage, empower and connect with them…”

Readers are now as fully informed as we are about this new 'Youth Action Plan' from the EU.

Observations

Euro-babble

Yesterday the EU once again substituted euro-babble for meaningful action. Instead of dealing with the calamitous situation in large parts of the EU where so many millions of young people can’t find jobs, the Commission turned its attention to ‘global youth’.

In so doing, the Commissioners reached for their ‘gobbledygook’ crib sheets and spouted a series of ever more meaningless platitudes.

The EU Commission says 2022 is the ‘European Year of Youth’ – How is that going?

Late last year the EU Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen announced that 2022 was going to be the ‘European Year of Youth 2022’.

Young people across the EU might have thought the Commission was going to come up with new policies to get them into work after so many have been on the scrap heap for years, to help them with housing, and generally to introduce policies which would help them to start building happy and productive lives.

Instead the Commission has issued a series of statements and press releases about ‘youth’ subjects such as climate change, solidarity, unity, political engagement, volunteering for the EU, and a lot of other vague ‘themes’.

We cannot recall one serious policy announcement all year about one of the most pressing needs for millions of young EU citizens – that of having the dignity of a job and to be able finally to move out of the parental home. No doubt the Commission has said something about this but it was clearly instantly forgettable.

The UK's Rejoiner youth

All polling shows a significant majority of young people in the UK are in favour of re-joining the EU. It is essential they are fully informed of the facts about the EU. One useful fact is that Brexit Britain continues to outperform the EU on youth unemployment and on overall unemployment – by a very long way.

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[ Sources: EU Commission | UK Office for National Statistics ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

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Reader Comments 12

1. Kevin Hagger , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 06:14:

The eu is a sham

2. Catherine , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 08:57:

How many thousands of expensive EU staff hours, how many expensive foreign trips, go towards this nonsense?

3. Peter Pan , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 09:07:

The UK cut tax for the rich, refused a windfall tax that energy companies were willing to pay,
& chose instead to burden younger generations before they even get started.
The EU will be getting a tax windfall from those companies - so effectively, the Tories borrowed from young people,
gave it to energy companies that don't need it, some of whom will in turn pay it to the EU.
Boris's Brexit Britain is working as intended - using public funds to further enrichen a select few.
The EU at least pretend to care about youth problems, we don't even bother with the charade anymore.
With an almost certain loss in the next GE, the Tories are not even pretending to care.

4. John Hardman , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 09:57:

Peter Pan- demiic,
The joys of reading one of the EU lost people who was and is still brain washed.
This report is highlighting the EU trying to brain wash the youth around the world just like you have been Mr Peter Pan-Demic.
Jog on to a more Leftie brainwashing site.

5. KB , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 11:18:

It's funny how we supposedly cannot find workers to pick crops and yet 10.2% of UK young people are "NEETs".

6. David Cottrell , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 12:29:

Much of the financial establishment and the world's liberal press is hostile to Brexit . This tends to colour commentary . By the way, Dutch inflation has just reached 17.1 percent .

7. jon livesey , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 14:56:

It's worth noting the top three countries in youth unemployment. Greece, Spain and Italy. It's like a ghost from the euro crisis. The EU was supposed to promote convergence European countries and yet decades later the three big problems remain the big problems, with a fifth of young people never having had a job. What is the point of the EU when it's the issues of *common* economic problems that don't get solved and the strong remain the strong and the weak economies remain weak?

8. Ashley Great Britain , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 16:42:

Scraping the barrel for fresh blood.
I hope the youth of the world give the EU what it deserves and two fingers.

9. ste , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 17:54:

ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD has come from regimes run by unelected unaccountable people !!

10. jon livesey , Wednesday, October 05, 2022, 20:12:

3. Peter Pan gives us a classic example of how out of touch remainers are. He says we "refused" a windfall tax on energy companies and that they will be paying it to the EU instead.
Wrong on both counts. The UK imposed a windfall tax on energy companies six months ago, long before the EU did. In fact it was in Sunak's last budget, and it is expected to raise £28 Billion. That was reported by Bloomberg earlier this week. And secondly, UK energy companies will be paying tax to the UK, not to the EU. The EU can't tax UK companies doing business in the UK.
You know, you've got to stop making stuff up.

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