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Nov. 23rd
High rates of unemployment (10% of the active population) and at the same time difficulties in recruiting high-skills personnel frames the introduction of actions to reach the objectives of 75 % of men and women at work by the year 2020.Last 23rd of November, the European Commission launched its initiative 'An Agenda for new skills and jobs'. Setting out 13 key actions aimed at “reforming labour markets, upgrading skills and matching them with market demand to boost employability and make it easier to move jobs, to improve working conditions and job quality, and to create jobs.” Getting more people into work is key to sustaining Europe’s social model and welfare systems as the EU working age population will soon start to shrink.
This new agenda is the Commission's contribution to the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth aiming at reaching the European employment rate of 75 % by the year 2020. Other relevant objectives within the strategy include the reduction of early school leaving rate to under 10% and incrising the number of young people in higher education or equivalent vocational education to at least 40%.
Full information: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/1541&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
