Investing in the youth: this is the imperative that has been launched by the European Commission after a survey of the demographic, professional and educational state of the European Union. One young person out of six leaves school too early, state the experts from Brussels, while "4.6 million people aged 15 to 24 are unemployed". Hence the need to "invest more and promptly in the education and health of the young, and help them in their transition from school to work". At the same time, "the young must be more involved in life as well as in society". "As millions of students across Europe are going back to school at the beginning of the new school year, we have to make more efforts so that the young can develop their skills and be more proactively involved in society", states Ján Figel’, Commissioner for education, culture and youth. "We are in a paradoxical situation adds his colleague Vladimír pidla, in charge of employment , in which on one side the EU lacks labour, and on the other hand it has too many young people out of work". Therefore the goal is to "invest more, not just in financial terms", by involving "families, NGOs, teachers and employers". (continued)
