Almost every fourth young Frenchman is unemployed. However, in the European election campaign, this is hardly an issue. This shortcoming could keep some of them away from the ballot box.
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France’s young unemployed – from the EU to forget?
A number of young people spread out in two groups in different directions, from Les Halles in the centre of the French capital, Paris. You have green leaflets and large, black, cardboard signs in Hand. “I don’t the others leave my EU-members to choose,” written on the flyers. On the cardboard signs controversial quotes are a printed member of the European Parliament, to encourage passers-by to the discussion – such as, for example, to refugee policy. However, what seems to be for the activists, obviously, is that Europe is important for the youth – not a warning to all young French women, and French. For almost every(r) in four is unemployed. So many a(r) of the European Union (EU) is left alone and has no sense for the upcoming elections.
“The EU gives us a Jobvorteil”
“Europe is easy for me to normality,” says Léo Allaire, the care, the so-called young Europeans to actions such as this Friday. The Association has been working for over 30 years for a democratic and Federal Europe. The 21-Year-old is studying applied languages at a University in Paris and has been studying since school German. For him, it is natural to have friends in Germany, Italy and Spain. But the EU and get young people a very clear Jobvorteil: “A friend of mine, for example, makes a internship in Germany, supported by the exchange program Erasmus. And there are many other initiatives for young people, financed by EU-funds. That is why it is just as important in the choice to have a voice,” he says.
Hagar Akhrouf (left) and Marie Pouliquen of the Association of young Europeans. You make a campaign for people to vote in the EU elections.
A few meters further on, the 23-year-old Marie is Pouliquen, the policy Sciences, with a focus on Renewable energies at the University of Paris Sciences Po studied. The Motto of the leaflets is also available on your green T-Shirt. “A world without the European Union, I can’t imagine – that would mean every country would be alone,” she says emphatically. However, Pouliquen has difficulties to bring your Flyer with the young people, the hilt and go. For you, this is also due to the current election campaign. “The is an absolute disaster,” she says. “It’s all about nationalism, and the politicians forget the most important topics such as youth unemployment. We are the future of Europe.”
Youth unemployment in the election campaign hardly for language
The French European election campaign has become a duel between Europe, proponents such as the current President Emmanuel Macron and Europe, opponents such as the radical right-wing party Rassemblement National (short RN, formerly the National Front) of Marine Le Pen. This is also a consequence of the months-long demonstrations of the so-called yellow the West, who have divided the country even more. The issue of youth unemployment is not practical for language – neither of the two favorites, the RN and Macrons party LREM, even in the case of the 32 parties in France.
For many a(n) boy(n) unemployed(n) contributes even more to the fact that the EU seems to be abstract. For example, for the group of young people, the His-to participate in this Friday afternoon in a Seminar in the youth jobzentrum Mission Locale in the Department of et-Marne, near Paris. Although the unemployment rate is in this area slightly below the national average, which is for people up to 25 years of just 19.2 percent. But simply the job search is not, however, says Inès Hadbi searching for months for a job in the administrative area. Unlike the students of the club of young Europeans has never heard of exchange programmes such as Erasmus as well as the other participants of the seminar, some of which the school is not ready-made.
Inès Habdi, the searches in the Seine-et-Marne Department near Paris, a Job.
In the EU, “left alone”
“I feel the EU left alone,” says the 19-Year-old. “We can only help ourselves. If we find a Job on my own, and not because the EU is doing something for us. European politicians do not see us at all. We don’t care.”
Besides her, the 19-year-old Roméo Oaw who wants to be a COP sitting. For him, the EU is anything other than a presence. “I come from a village of 300 inhabitants,” he says. “For us, the European Logo on all public buildings, but that doesn’t mean anything. What counts is, if at all, local initiatives.”
Europe’s limited room for manoeuvre?
Neither Hadbi yet Oaw have, in the case of the European elections vote. Christopher Dembik, Economist at Saxo Bank in Paris, you can understand that the EU seems to be the young people far away. But, he says, the reason for this is that their room for manoeuvre was limited.
“The EU can only provide about structural Fund money available. But their programs are not yet in individual countries, population groups or even classes coined,” he says. “Europe is a direction, but it is up to the national governments, specifically to.” France have it particularly hard because its birth rate is so high. Therefore, the country needed to create more and more jobs to reduce youth unemployment.
Christopher Dembik, Economist at Saxo Bank in Paris
Hagar Akhrouf, Vice-President of the young Europeans find, however, that EU programmes can contribute a lot to their qualification. But she admits that this would have to be extended to reach more young people and to convince.
“Here there is so much creativity,” says the 24-Year-old European studies student at the Sorbonne in Paris. “We could easily compete with the Start-up Paradise of Silicon Valley. We are young, dynamic and have potential. But we can use it to the full, the EU needs to support us more.”
However, whether such programs are also helping many young people without a University degree in the Job, is questionable. Under the Non-Graduate unemployment in France is up to four times as high as under Graduate.