Skills shortage worsens EU unemployment [de] [fr]

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An expert report is demanding urgent action to address chronic skills shortages in Europe's labour market, as unemployment in the euro zone hits 10%.

NGOs defy Commission on 'EU 2020' agenda

Social and environmental NGOs have reacted angrily to claims by the European Commission that they "broadly support" draft plans for a new growth and jobs strategy.

Services Directive causes further EU headaches

Member states are struggling to bring the EU Services Directive into national law while carefully watching other countries' development, a EurActiv round-up has found.

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Workers Mobility

Free movement of labour in the EU 27 [fr] [de]

Few of the EU's 'older' and wealthier member states continue to restrict access to their labour markets to workers from Eastern Europe, with Germany and Austria the only countries opting to...

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Labour market reforms [fr] [de]

In the wake of the global financial and economic crises, the EU is developing a new labour market strategy as part of its successor to the 'Lisbon Agenda' for economic, social and...

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Services in the Internal Market [fr] [de]

The directive on services in the internal market was designed to break down barriers to trade in services across the EU, and help complete the single market. Despite most member states...

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Opinion & Analysis

Temporary jobs can help people get back into work

Annemarie Muntz Eurociett president

Pain in Spain tests social calm

Jason Webb Reuters

What do citizens want? Well-being measurement and European social policymaking

Sotiria Theodoropoulou & Fabian Zuleeg European Policy Centre (EPC) Policy ana

EU 2020: Why skills are key for Europe's future

Paul Hofheinz Lisbon Council Präsident

Europe 2014: Young voices in Europe - whose generation are we?

Joana Cruz & Judith Poultney European Policy Centre (EPC)