EU: European social partners’ common analysis of labour markets

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)
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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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