On Friday, January 17, the European Commission presented a draft regulation aiming to strengthen EURES, the European job search tool. EURES mostly works like a website, with a portal giving constant access to over 1.4 million job offers and 1.1 million resumes. Offering more jobs and improving adequacy between offer and demand are the two primary goals of this proposal. If the European Parliament and Council accept it, the proposal should “facilitate workers’ mobility, thus contributing to a truly integrated European employment market,” declared Laszlo Andor, Commissioner responsible for Employment and Social Affairs.
An “ambitious step to fight unemployment in a very practical way.” Created in 1993, EURES, the European Employment Services, made up of the European Commission and the Member State’s public employment services (as well as Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) along with other partners, has already been amended over time.
Today, the primary goal of the report is to change this employment network into a more proactive tool, paying more attention to labor market needs, targeting in priority the improvement of youth mobility, by increasing the number of partners offering mobility services.
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