2025/2184(INI) Own-initiative report First reading

Implementation of the Council Recommendation of 30 October 2020 on A Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee and replacing the Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee

Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.

Where it stands: Parliament adopted the text on 15 September 2026. This is its final position on the matter.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 9 October 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 15 July 2026
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 27 August 2026
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 15 September 2026
  5. ✓ Parliament’s position Final
How a file moves through Parliament

A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. The adopted resolution is Parliament’s final position; it is not itself law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
EMPL — Employment and Social Affairs
Rapporteur
Hristo PETROV Renew
Shadow rapporteurs
Niels GEUKING PPEAodhán Ó RÍORDÁIN S&DMarie DAUCHY PfELara MAGONI ECRGordan BOSANAC Verts/ALEKathleen FUNCHION The Left
For opinion
CULT — Culture and Education · rapporteur Hristo PETROV Renew

The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.

The text, version by version

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA10-0287/2026 15 September 2026 ✦ Parliament's resolution reviews how the Council Recommendation of 30 October 2020 on A Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee has been implemented. It finds persistent gaps in outreach, coverage, offer quality and data, and sets out recommendations to the Commission and member states.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0218/2026 27 August 2026 ✦ This is a committee report on how the reinforced Youth Guarantee has been implemented. It finds that youth unemployment and NEET rates have fallen but that outreach, offer quality, data and funding remain weak.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (EMPL) 26 February 2026 ✦ This draft report by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs assesses how the reinforced Youth Guarantee has been implemented. It finds uneven results, low awareness and weak monitoring, and calls for targeted improvements.

Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: Adds a paragraph on the European Child Guarantee and a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion in the next multiannual financial framework. Drops the paragraph on underemployed individuals and the call for full-time employment, and drops equal treatment in working conditions including pay and social protection from traineeship offers under the RYG. Changes gradual reintegration pathways for young people with fewer opportunities into an encouragement of additional pathways for NEETs with quality standards and follow-up pathways. Changes volunteering within RYG schemes into volunteering for RYG beneficiaries, adds a European quality framework, and adds avoiding the replacement of quality jobs and traineeships with unpaid volunteering. The other changes are formal: decimal separators are changed from points to commas, and two phrases are rephrased. see the changes →

Committee opinions: Draft opinion (CULT),Opinion (CULT)

Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.

Timeline

  1. Plenary stage
  2. 15 September 2026 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 15 September 2026 📄 Report A10-0218/2026📄 Adopted text TA10-0287/2026
    Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 530 Against 77 Abstained 61

    Final vote — text as a whole at 13:59 · 79% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 27 ballots

    adopted rejected lapsed square = amendment circle = part of the text decisive vote Solid = roll call (click for every MEP’s vote); faded = no individual positions

    Show all 27 ballots in voting order
    1. Amendment 4 13:55 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 6 – Am 4
    Rejected
    2. Amendment 11 13:55 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – After § 12 – Am 11
    Adopted
    3. Separate vote: paragraph 15 § 15
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    4. Separate vote: paragraph 33 § 33
    electronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    5. Amendment 5 13:56 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – After § 52 – Am 5
    Rejected
    6. Amendment 6 13:56 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 54 – Am 6
    Rejected
    7. Separate vote: paragraph 54 § 54
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    8. Separate vote: paragraph 54 § 54
    electronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    9. Amendment 3 13:57 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 55 – Am 3
    Adopted
    10. Amendment 7 13:57 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – After § 57 – Am 7
    Rejected
    11. Amendment 8 13:57 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 59 – Am 8
    Rejected
    12. Separate vote: paragraph 69 § 69
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    13. Separate vote: paragraph 69 § 69
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    14. Separate vote: paragraph 72 § 72
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    15. Separate vote: paragraph 72 § 72
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    16. Separate vote: paragraph 74 § 74
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    17. Separate vote: paragraph 74 § 74
    Lapsed
    18. Amendment 2 13:58 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 75 – Am 2
    Adopted
    19. Separate vote: paragraph 75 § 75
    Lapsed
    20. Separate vote: paragraph 81 § 81
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    21. Separate vote: paragraph 81 § 81
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    22. Paragraph 83 — part 1 13:58 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 83/1
    Adopted
    23. Paragraph 83 — part 2 13:58 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 83/2
    Adopted
    24. Paragraph 83 — part 3 13:59 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 83/3
    Adopted
    25. Amendment 9 13:59 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 87 – Am 9
    Rejected
    26. Amendment 10 13:59 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – § 88 – Am 10
    Rejected
    27. Final vote — text as a whole 13:59 A10-0218/2026 – Hristo Petrov – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
    Adopted
  3. 8 September – 9 September 2026 11 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

    Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.

    📄 Amendments 1–2📄 Amendment 3📄 Amendments 4–10📄 Amendment 11
  4. 27 August 2026 Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    📄 Report A10-0218/2026
  5. Committee stage
  6. 15 July 2026 Committee vote: report adopted

    EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  7. 3 June 2026 CULT (Culture and Education) adopted its opinion

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    📄 Opinion (CULT)
  8. 23 April 2026 Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)

    Members of EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (EMPL)📄 Amendments in committee (EMPL)
  9. 26 February 2026 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (EMPL)
  10. 9 October 2025 Referred to the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; CULT (Culture and Education) gives an opinion.