Parliament reinvigorates the jobs debate and pushes the European Commission to propose concrete legislation.

Young, skilled... and jobless

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some of the basic  skills listed in job descriptions. 

But increasingly employers are looking  for candidates with good IT skills

A win-win situation  for the new tech-savvy generation.

But with 21 % of young Europeans  without a job

it would seem  they are hard to place in the market. 

On the one hand, employers expect  employees to be highly communicative,

on the other hand they often communicate  to these young people in a clumsy way

what's expected from them in their jobs.

7 million people  aged between 15 to 24 years old

aren’t just unemployed,  they’re not in training or education. 

MEPs want to focus  on real partnership with SMEs.

Disadvantaged groups like those  with disability or from lower income families

would be given social skills training. 

For some people  with particular disadvantages

It's clear that many Member States  are neglecting their duty

and that people have an equal  and fair opportunity on the labour market.

But this attempt  to reinvigorate the jobs debate

depends on whether  the EU Commission will now act

to provide concrete legislation  to help the lost generation.