The main objective of this paper is to explore the politics of development and employment in the territory of the European Union and the Republic of Croatia, as a Member State of the EU. The European Employment Strategy is the basis for the employment policies of the Member countries of the European Union, and is part of the Europe 2020 growth strategy. Europe 2020 growth strategy was adopted in the middle of the world economic crisis in order to overcome the crisis which affects many Member States. Unemployment has reached unacceptably high levels in many parts of Europe, s is the special attention dedicated to the programs for the employment, especially for young people. As some of the most important program we can highlight the youth employment initiative and a program called the guarantee for young people. The last few years all the more noteworthy attaches and the concept of flaxicurity in the European employment policy. On the basis of available sources, primarily the Croatian employment service, on measures of active labour market policies is shown how many participants use specific programs active employment in the Republic of Croatia. From the data it is evident that the most used measures of vocational training for work without employment. This measure for youth employment is the only one in a series of many that are trying to solve the problem of youth employment. Croatia has still a lot of work on active employment programmes, and to comply with the European Employment Strategy and the application of flexicurity.