EU: Peter Hartz, architect of Germany’s 2010 Hartz Reforms Plan, is calling on France and Germany to combine their efforts in tackling Europe’s youth unemployment.

The well-known former human resources executive at the German public company Volkswagen AG (VW) and the man behind the controversial 2002-2005 labor market reforms has come front stage once again. During a press conference held in Berlin on 09 May, Peter Hartz presented a new concept aimed at tackling long-term unemployment in Germany and youth unemployment across Europe. After congratulating France’s Emmanuel Macron on his election success, Mr. Hartz invited the president-elect along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to lay the groundwork for a concrete Franco-German project that could reduce Europe’s youth unemployment and breath new life into both the Franco-German relationship and the European idea.
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Corporate Social Responsibility. For the past decade silence has surrounded Mr. Peter Harz who was convicted on corruption charges within VW in 2007 Known for his innovative ideas, the former HR executive was the architect behind former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s Agenda 2010 and is once again at the forefront of a fresh debate on his overarching interest namely, the fight against unemployment (c.f. article No. 10078). He heads up the not-for-profit organization SHS (Saarländer helfen Saarlän

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