Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2184(INI)
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
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 15 September 2026. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 9 October 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 15 July 2026
- Tabled for plenary(done) 27 August 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 15 September 2026
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
15 September 2026 · decision 11
EU budget & funds, Resolution
Implementation of the Council Recommendation on a Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee
Adopted 530 for · 77 against · 61 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The report examines the Youth Guarantee, a commitment to offer every young person under 30 good quality employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving education.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary: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.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Employment and Social Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Hristo Petrov (Renew)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Niels Geuking (EPP), Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (S&D), Marie Dauchy (Patriots), Lara Magoni (ECR), Gordan Bosanac (Greens), Kathleen Funchion (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Culture and Education· rapporteurHristo Petrov (Renew)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 15 Sept 2026
AI summary: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.
Tabled for plenary· 27 Aug 2026
AI summary: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.
Committee draft· 26 Feb 2026
AI summary: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.
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (CULT), Opinion (CULT)
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
15 September 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 15 Sept 2026 Report A10-0218/2026Adopted text TA10-0287/2026
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.
27 August 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 5 steps
15 July 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
3 June 2026
CULT (Culture and Education) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
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)
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.
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.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2184(INI)