In June, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held a hearing focusing on combating discrimination in the employment and recruitment of Roma, which revealed that the current strategies for fostering their inclusion in the labour market were largely failing.
Remiantis nauju, Europos ekonomikos ir socialinių reikalų komiteto užsakymu atliktu tyrimu, tarpvalstybinės paslaugos kuria naujas darbo vietas ir skatina ekonomikos augimą. Jos daro teigiamą poveikį visoms ES šalims ir skirtingoms darbo vietoms – tiek imlioms darbo jėgai, tiek žinioms. Ši studija patvirtina, kad ES ekonomikai naudinga vengti griežto reguliavimo tarpvalstybinių paslaugų vidaus rinkoje. Tarpvalstybinių paslaugų daliai sumažėjus 1 proc. ES ekonomika prarastų apie 8 milijardus EUR.
The EESC draws mixed conclusions from the European Commission's growth survey
The government, representatives of organised civil society and other interest groups call for fresh impetus for the European Union
At its October plenary session, the EESC adopted a package of three opinions on EU economic governance, providing European decision-makers with new input for the ongoing discussions on deepening Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the next European Semester exercise.
Appropriate skills, social protection and diversity in the workplace will all be crucial for the future, as will social dialogue about the introduction of new technologies
The European economy loses over 2% of productivity per year due to a mismatch of skills, according to a recent study commissioned by the European Economic and Social Committee. This means a loss of 80 eurocents for each hour of work. The situation will get even worse in the future due to demographic trends and ongoing technological developments, if no reforms are undertaken.
The Africa-EU Economic and Social Stakeholders' Network sees young people in Africa as key actors in Africa's economic and social development.
The EESC held the fourth of its Going Local meetings on the live-in care sector in the EU, this time in Poland. The country provides much of the sector's workforce in western EU Member States, but has itself started to face a serious shortage of qualified carers in recent years
The EESC conference in Rome pointed to many shortcomings in Italy's live-in care sector, which is on the rise in the country shown to be the second "oldest" in the world according to recent figures
