European social partners are elaborating a joint analysis of the labour market and identifying its challenges. This initiative has several goals : give recommendations to EU and national public powers, be included in a "framework of actions on employment" which remains to be defined, sustain future negotiations on the integration of disadvantaged groups or on lifelong training. For the moment, they agreed on a joint report taking over existing statistics on the labour market. This article summarizes the main points of this shared vision. (Ref. 070547)
European social partners (European Trade Union Confederation, BusinessEurope, CEEP and UEAPME) collected a certain number of statistical elements and are delivering an interpretation. The attached document goes over a few boards of the document elaborated by social partners.
A few observations:
- Between 1996 and 2006, the GDP increased of 2.4%, thus following the same rhythm as the previous decades. The 3% growth set in 2000 by Lisbon’s European Council will only be reached “if appropriate polic
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