Youth unemployment is 49.3 percent in Greece, 53.8 percent in Spain and 43.3 percent in Italy. That’s just a fraction of the 5.6 million young people out of work in 2014. Europe isn’t working … at least, not well enough. The European Union has two key programmes to curb youth unemployment. But how effective and efficient are the European Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative?

Euranet Plus and Rádio Renascença, commercial station, the Portuguese Euranet Plus member, discussed these questions in a bilingual debate moderated by journalist Ana Maria Carrilho of Rádio Renascença (in Portuguese) and Brian Maguire of the Euranet Plus News Agency in Brussels (in English). Students from the campus radio stations affiliated to Euranet Plus from Spain and Poland also joined the debate.

Get all the details and watch video recording of the debate at euranetplus-inside.eu/citizens-corner-debate-on-cutting-e...

Guests: - José Manuel Fernandes, MEP, Portugal, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats), Member of the Committee on Budgets, co-author of a Motion for a resolution on Youth Employment, www, @JMFernandesEU - Elisa Ferreira, MEP, Portugal, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, www, @ElisaFerreiraEP - Inês Cristina Zuber, MEP, Portugal, Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs - José Silva Peneda, expert in employment matters