France: European Commission recommends better response to skills shortages in green professions

For the first time this year, the European Commission’s country-specific recommendations, sent out as part of the European Semester (coordination of member states’ economic and budgetary policies), include social and employment issues. In the document sent out on 19 June, which focuses mainly on budgetary issues at a time when France is the target of an excessive deficit procedure, Brussels notes the persistence of skills shortages. In particular, the institution deplores the fact that only 25%