Being young in Europe

Bad Tölz 2015

Problems

Youth unemployment

Environment

Integration & immigration

Youth unemployment

Causes:

- Companys do not dare to employ young people

- Not benificial for companies to employ youths

- High payroll tax

Consequences

Higher youth unemployment

Harder for youths to get in the work life

Youths have less money

Measures:

Decrease the payroll tax

Adopt funding to companies that hire youths

Adopt more internship during school

How does the government want to solve the problem?

- 90-day guarantee divided into:

• Trainee jobs

• Education – Be able to study adult education

- Integration into employment

• Funding for companies

Integration via immigration

Causes

- Different culture

- Different language

- Different school system

Consequences

- Bad prospects for the future

- Difficult to be a part of the community => exclusion

- Difficult to educate yourself => Difficult to get a job

Measures

- Governmental support for foreigners- language, cultures etc.

- Social organizations for the foreigners

- Prevent segregation in the society by enabling poor people to live in wealthy regions

What does the government think of this problem?

Environment

Causes

• Youngsters don’t have any chance to make a difference

• Youngsters don’t take responsibilities for their actions

• Lack of interest about the environment

Environment

Consequences

• Non-involvement among youth today is bad for the future

• Uneducated today --- uneducated in the future -- harder to solve the problems

• Lack of interest today -- lack of interest in the future

Environment

Measures

Give youngsters a chance to bring about a change

Make the youth more involved

Our future, our problems & our problems

Educate more and more youngsters about the problems

How does the government want to solve the problem?

Reduce the emission of fossils fuels

Environment friendly cars

Renewable energy

What do we think about the governments solutions?

Integration via immigration

Governments solutions:

- Schools take more action against racism

- Foreign education more adapted for the jobs here in Sweden

- More people with foreign background in political parties

Good solutions, but need editing

Not equal to ours

Will not solve problems but will lead to improvement

• Adopt better support in means of language and culture• Organizations where you gather people from different backgrounds• Less segregations by mixing living places

Does these problems occur just in Sweden or in the whole Europe?

Integration – Mostly a problem in Sweden

Environment – The same problems in other countries

Youth unemployment – Not just in Sweden