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EU DECODED: Will the deal to end fake internships be reached by 2025?

There are more than three million trainees in the EU working on temporary contracts and almost half of them are unpaid. The European Commission proposed a new type of “quality internship” in March 2024 that would offer fair pay, pension protection and equal access for vulnerable groups.

However, the 27 EU governments failed to reach a consensus on the proposal in December and it will come under negotiation again in 2025. The EU cannot impose legally binding legislation banning unpaid internships, as this is an area of ​​national competence, but the European Commission has promised to improve the current stalled text.

"We have a gap not just in the workforce but also in skills. We also have huge youth unemployment. So obviously we are relying heavily on the quality of internships to attract them into the job market," Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu told Euronews' Decoded.

“We have to work with member states and I am sure they understand that the quality of internships, the minimum standards that we want to impose on internships across Europe are in the best interests of those countries, their industries and economies,” she added.

On average, 78% of young Europeans have completed at least one internship, according to the 2023 Eurobarometer. A fifth of them choose to do their internships in a different EU member state. In Germany, France and the Netherlands, up to 90% of young people do internships. In Malta, the Czech Republic and Sweden, a smaller proportion takes them up.

"Countries like Spain and Germany, for example, think that this proposal doesn't work as it is written now, that it could lead to a race to the bottom because we are prioritizing low prices over the need to promote education. But others, like the

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