According to the Europe 2020, the European
Employment Strategy aims to create more jobs and
better throughout the European Union.
To this end, it encourages the adoption of
measures to achieve three main objectives in
2020:
ensure employment for 75% of the population aged
20 to 64;
lower the dropout rate to less than 10% and 40%
carry at least the number of graduates of higher
education among those aged 30-34;
reduce by at least 20 million the number of
people affected or threatened by poverty and
social exclusion.
The actions described in the flagship initiative
"A strategy for the new skills and new jobs" are
critical to achieving these goals.
How does the strategy?
The European Employment Strategy provides a
framework (the "OMC") that allows EU countries
to share information, discuss and coordinate
their employment policies.
Every year, national governments (through the
Employment Committee) and the European
institutions to adopt the "employment package"
which consists of:
guidelines for national policies on employment:
the Commission's proposed and adopted by
national governments, they establish priorities
and objectives;
reports in which national governments describe
their policies in employment: the European
Commission checks whether they comply with the
objectives of the Europe 2020 and the flagship
initiatives;
a Commission report accompanied, if appropriate,
recommendations for national governments.
Parallel to this procedure, a permanent dialogue
be established between the Commission, national
governments, trade unions, employers and other
European institutions (European Parliament, the
Economic and Social Committee of the Regions,
etc.)..
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