EU: the European Parliament’s Employment Committee hears Laszlo Andor, applicant Commissioner for Employment

At the rate of one minute per question, this exercise is like speed dating. These few seconds are enough if the ideas are clear, not enough to convince otherwise. With questions which mostly revolved around the EU’s strategy for 2020, employment and social policies, Laszlo Andor (see our dispatch No. 091090 for his description) sometimes seemed like his answers were theoretical, not concrete, and, on occasion, that he was making incantatory wishes. But this is simply the reflection of the European Commission’s troubles in articulating a true view to get out of the crisis. Mr. Andor nevertheless expressed his will to defend the idea of the transversality of employment issues in the 2020 strategy, which means including this problem into all policies, notably economic ones, and define general objectives including the employment issue. This is a significant novelty.
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These few seconds are enough if the ideas are clear, not enough to convince otherwise. With questions which mostly revolved around the EU’s strategy for 2020, employment and social policies, Laszlo Andor (see our dispatch No. 091090 for his description) sometimes seemed like his answers were theoretical, not concrete, and, on occasion, that he was making incantatory wishes. But this is simply the reflection of the European Commission’s troubles in articulating a true view to get out of the cri

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