Social Summit - Who will hold the youth torch?
4th May 2021 - 10: CET


On 4t May the  Portuguese Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, will open an event dedicating space to young people who want to send their message to leaders in Porto Social Summit.

Our Europe is a social Europe. Europe that on one hand offers opportunities for personal growth and development and on another protects its citizens.  Today, the race to the bottom, makes the precarious work flourish, systemic lack of access to social protection is visible more than ever before, and currently applied emergency measures are insufficiently covering sectors where young workers are overrepresented.

In our view, the European Commission was not bold enough when presenting the Action Plan for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. The positive narrative is not accompanied by strong actions, particularly when it comes to fighting the precarity that workers, their representatives but also economists have been crying for.  

European leaders will meet in Porto, to discuss and declare their vision of social Europe in an unprecedented situation. We call on them :
- to effectively address the situation of the most vulnerable groups that urgently need support, young people being among them.
- to implement measures that will create sustainable and quality jobs and will therefore strongly contribute to the well being of Europeans
- to avoid all short term solutions that in practice will translate into painful austerity measures in the future.

Interpretation available in PT, EN, ES, FR and IT