Maybe Juncker complained that the incoming workforce could use a bit more post-graduation experience. This way EU will be getting people that don't need on-job training.
Comparing Erlang to C# is a bit unfair.
The latter is a general purpose language that can be used to build software on every layer of every platform.
The former is a distributed programming DSL (an awesome one granted).
There is 0 Erlang-native GUI libraries, there is no documented Erlang pipeline for iOS apps etc.