Spring Summit: new youth employment and training targets 27-03-2006 At the EU summit of the European Council on 23-24 March 2006, the EU leaders
discussed the Lisbon Agenda, the effort to make the European economy the most
competitive in the world by 2010. The EU summit largely limited itself to
re-confirming existing Lisbon targets, but did introduce new goals on youth
employment. The role cities can play in realising the Lisbon Agenda was largely
overlooked, though special reference has been made to the role of the Committee
of the Regions (CoR).
The CoR has been encouraged to keep on working on involving local and
regional stakeholders in the formulation of the so called National Reform
Programmes (NRPs), in order to increase the ownership of these programmes. The
NRPs are the national efforts implemented by national governments aimed at
reaching the Lisbon targets.
On the issue of youth employment and training, the European Council states
that "efforts should be intensified to reduce early school leaving to 10% and to
ensure that at least 85% of 22 year olds should have completed upper secondary
education. By the end of 2007 every young person who has left school and is
unemployed should be offered a job, apprenticeship, additional training or other
employability measure within six months, and within no more than 4 months by
2010."
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