{"id":369816,"date":"2026-03-28T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:10:07","slug":"ireland-south-mep-appointed-left-negotiator-for-youth-guarantee-eu-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369816\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland South MEP appointed left negotiator for youth guarantee EU report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ireland South MEP has been appointed as left negotiator for the EU report on youth guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/kathleen-funchion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Funchion<\/a> will take on\u00a0the role, describing the report as crucial in a time of global uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>The youth guarantee is a commitment by EU member states to ensure young people have education, apprentice, trainee and employment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>MEP Funchion says she\u2019ll stand firm on the need for a sufficiently funded programme in the next EU budgetary period.<\/p>\n<p>She says a strong report that recognises and addresses the challenges faced by young people must be produced.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ireland South MEP has been appointed as left negotiator for the EU report on youth guarantee. Sinn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,151271,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-369816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-ireland-south-mep","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}