“We can maintain and develop our social system if more people are active” declared Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt when she presented her government’s 2020 economic policy in Copenhagen on May 8. Indeed, the government’s initiatives to boost the Danish economy (see our dispatch No. 110686), where production dropped more than elsewhere since the economic crisis started in 2008, “are not enough” to turn the situation around. Thus, the government recommends new reforms it will soon discuss as part of the next tripartite negotiations with the social partners.
8. Indeed, the government’s initiatives to boost the Danish economy (see our dispatch No. 110686), where production dropped more than elsewhere since the economic crisis started in 2008, “are not enough” to turn the situation around. Thus, the government recommends new reforms it will soon discuss as part of the next tripartite negotiations with the social partners.
Three challenges. The government notably lists three fundamental challenges for the eight years to come: reviving the...
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