EP Plenary session - Oral Questions - Empowering European Youth: post-pandemic employment and social recovery

European Social Fund Plus: helping the most vulnerable - The ESF+ aims to invest in people and create a more social and inclusive Europe.

The Ice Hotel as it melts during a warm day in Jukkasjarvi near Kiruna city in Lappland region, Sweden. The Ice Hotel was created to prolong the summer tourist season to keep employment.

Kiruna, Northern Sweden - Ice hotel

Youth employment

Young woman looking for a job in an employment agency

Press Conference - GI's : ' A factor of employment and social cohesion '

Young woman at Manpower Job search office in Athens

Handyman. Ready-to-assemble furniture

Cocktail reception on the subject of the Corporate Social Responsibility and the Europe 2020 Strategy - The Employment Dimension

SME : Passive frame window manufacturer - Family business

Woodkork. Frame window assembly line. Men at work.

Woman working on a building site

Handicraft: Tools of a stonemason

Creation of the European Social Fund to promote employement and professional and geographical mobility of workers in 1960

Various photographs of 1960

Christine studied architecture in Athens, Michele went to Budapest - both as Erasmus students. They are part of a generation whose life was shaped by the Erasmus programme.

Portraits of the Erasmus Generation

The House of European History opens its doors next week, while MEPs are set to discuss the EU’s blacklist of countries at risk of money laundering, regulating private security companies and more during committee meetings.

Coming up in Brussels: from a new museum to the sharing economy

Some things in life are overrated. EU citizenship is not one of them. Being a citizen of the European Union opens up more than just borders to its residents. You can build your life in another EU country. You have rights as a student, worker, job seeker and pensioner in any Member State. You even have the opportunity to raise your family in your adopted home too.

Your EU citizenship rights

For the first time, the European Parliament will vote on a revision that will allow the EU's budget to adapt to fast-changing realities. MEPs want more flexibility in the use of funds, especially when emergencies arise.

EU multiannual budget: Ready for new realities

The European Parliament recently adopted a set of three resolutions exploring the future of the European Union. EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker throws five other scenarios into the hat.

Juncker: "Where are you going, Europe?"

From monetary matters to regional funding, MEPs keep an eye on the EU's economic policies

Monitoring the EU's economy

The EU is only halfway towards achieving gender equality and progress has been slow, with only marginal improvement over the last decade. MEPs are pushing for a string of actions to finally close the gender gap. 

Closing Europe's gender gap

The refugee crisis highlights differing opinions to migration among Member States. The European Union is working to fairly distribute refugees across Europe. Migration is important to the EU's economic future. Just ask Mexican migrant Montserrat, who came from Mexico to work in Germany through the EU Blue Card scheme.

Common goals: Migration

Youth unemployment is one of the biggest challenges in some EU countries. Like Portugal for example. Sérgio Oliveira manages an employment scheme which helps young people to find work. The EU is supporting projects like this, as well as introducing a European Pillar of Social Rights to integrate these issues into its core values. With more funding to social schemes like Sérgio's, the EU will be able to improve the lives of more citizens.

Common goals: The social dimension

You work a middle income job, live in a small shared apartment and take two buses to get to work. Sound familiar to anyone? SNI Group is a French social housing provider, which builds affordable rental units in areas with housing shortages. The European Fund for Strategic Investment is investing €21 billion in projects like SNI Group, to create jobs and stimulate growth across Europe.

Common goals: Jobs, growth and investment

This infoclip illustrates the cooperation between the European Commission and the EGF Managing authority in Dublin (Ireland).

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