EU: Swedish Presidency focuses on labor market integration

e EU wants to see “the EU emerge from the economic crisis in a stronger position.” From a social point of view, this means maintaining all people of working age at work so the Member States are ready for the recovery. This Presidency has one semester, punctuated by major institutional meetings, to carry across the message that, in spite of the expectable rise in unemployment, employment rescue programs which exclude certain categories of workers from the labor world must be avoided. (Ref. 09068