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I copy below a comment that NEUJOBS experts on welfare state issues, Verena Dräbing, Anton Hemerijck and Moira Nelson, wrote in response to Mario Draghi’s comment on the (non) future of European welfare states.

“In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal on February 22, Mario Draghi talks about the need for wide-reaching reform, noting that “the European social model has already gone when we see youth unemployment rates prevailing in some countries”. In his view, fiscal consolidation through lower taxes and expenditures remains, despite contradictory short term effects, the only path to renewed economic competitiveness. Continue reading →

In a recent interview in the Wall Street Journal, the Presdient of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, said: ‘The European social model is already gone’.

Please follow this Link to read the interview.

The 20th February, 12 heads of government of EU members sent a letter to the President of the Council and the President of the Commission to stress Europe needs a new strategy for growth.

For the 12 members EU needs a renewed action for growth based on eight points mainly concentrated on the deepening of the internal market and the extension of its external side.

The seventh, which is of particular interest for us, suggests that the EU Members States must be, “acting nationally and, respecting national competences, collectively to promote well functioning labour markets which deliver employment opportunities and, crucially, promote higher levels of labour market participation among young people, women and older workers [...] We should foster labour mobility to create a more integrated and open European labour market, for example by advancing the acquisition and preservation of supplementary pension rights for migrating workers, while respecting the role of the social partners. We should also take further action to reduce the number of regulated professions in Europe, through the introduction of a tough new proportionality test set out in legislation. In this context, we ask the Commission to convene without delay a new forum for the mutual evaluation of national practices to help identify and bring down unjustified regulatory barriers, examine alternatives to regulation which ensure high professional standards and assess the scope for further alignment of standards to facilitate mutual recognition of professional qualifications”.

Please view this PDF for the entire letter.

Dear NEUJOBS fan,

We would like to invite you to attend a NEUJOBS stakeholders’ lunch time meeting. The objective is to discuss a report that examines early findings of NEMESIS, an economic model. We hope you will help us to refine the scenarios by highlighting what will matter for the future of labour demand in Europe: which skills, which sectors, which occupations.

Please, see below more information. You can register for free through CEPS website: http://www.ceps.be/event/linking-future-economic-development-jobs.

We hope to see you all on the 23rd February at CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), Place du Congrès 1, Bruxelles.