Marco Panara Candidate for the Chamber of Deputies for the TOGETHER list in the plurinominal constituencies of Rome 02 and Abruzzo 01
In Italy there are about one million one hundred thousand boys and girls between 18 and 24 who are not in school or university, in training courses or at work.
They are the NEET (Not in education, employment or training). It is one of the highest percentages in Europe compared to the population of that generation and it is a gigantic social problem.
According to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the NEET population generates social costs in our country between 2 and 2,5 percent of GDP.
The first bill that I would present if I were elected to the Chamber of Deputies concerns them, with the aim of recovering this generation and its start towards active citizenship.
The tool is the establishment of the compulsory and paid civil service for boys and girls between 18 and 24 who do not study, do not work and are not active in job search, the management of which would be entrusted (as is the case today for the civilian volunteer) to public structures and the Third Sector, which would have the task of organizing training and work placements with controllable and measurable mechanisms.
The commitment to public finances, calculated on the basis of the costs incurred by the state for the voluntary civil service, would be in the order of 2 billion euros a year, a significant figure but equal to half of the social cost determined by the NEETs and compensated from the services produced and above all from the rehabilitation of one million young people to active citizenship.
