Giulia Caratelli

Giulia Caratelli

Giulia Caratelli

Giulia Caratelli

giulia.caratelli@studenti.unimi.it

Analyses
18 February 2022

Youth guarantee: A policy mechanism promoting European convergence? The case of Italy and Greece

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Over the last decade, the European Union has faced two major crises simultaneously: the debt crisis and more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic, which has eaten away the dreams and hopes of the youngest population. In this context, the European Union implemented the Youth Guarantee Programme (YG) in 2014, as a contribution to three of the Europe 2020 strategy targets aimed at integrating the most disadvantaged young people into the labour market.

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«For the MFF 2021–2027, Member States have decided not to increase the EU budget, despite the adverse consequences that the Great Recession had on many European territories. As a consequence, cohesion policy, in 2021–2027, will be too small a blanket to cater to the needs of two distinct peripheries adequately.»