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BackThe experiences of the last years clearly demonstrate that urgent improvements are needed to ensure the implementation, application and enforcement of the Directive in respect of posting workers within in the framework of the provision of services. That is why the European Commission proposed an Enforcement Directive with new solutions and measures on 21 March 2012.
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BackThis week, the European Commission presented its long-awaited Youth Employment Package. An employment and training guarantee for all young people under 25 shall be implemented Europe-wide. Austria served as a good example. The proposal of the Commission goes in the right direction. However, so far no one has mentioned how these measures are to be financed. Calculations clearly show: the implementation of a Europe-wide Youth Guarantee would cost 15 billion Euros. The costs incurred by Europe’s Member States due to youth unemployment amount to more than 150 billion Euros p.a.
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BackOn 16.2.2012, the EU Commission published a White Paper on Pensions. In the White Paper, the EU Commission names developing a pension strategy for “adequate, safe und sustainablepensions” a key target. This shall offer better “support to pension reform efforts in the Member States”.
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BackThis Issue Paper by Erik Türk, Josef Wöss and Fabian Zuleeg confirms that improving employment rates is the best strategy with which countries can prepare for population ageing. Against a background of a fast-increasing number of older people and a shrinking number of people of working age, decisive action to ensure the long-term sustainability of social security systems – and especially pensions – cannot be postponed.
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Back1. More growth and competitiveness. The consolidation packages in the individual EU countries will contribute in the coming years to a slowdown in economic dynamics. It is therefore all the more important to achieve a sustainable economic growth through anincrease in women’s employment, by way of a strengthening of domestic demand.
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BackThe European Union must use its budget to improve the economic and social conditions for its citizens and to prepare itself for future challenges. For that, it needs a sufficient allocation for employment, social affairs and poverty alleviation.
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BackThe European Union must use its budget to improve the economic and social conditions for its citizens and to prepare itself for future challenges. For that, it needs a sufficient allocation for employment, social affairs and poverty alleviation.
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BackThe percentage of women in leading management positions in the European economy has remained low for years.
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BackWe welcome the Commission’s initiative to improve the implementation, application and enforcement of the Posting of Workers Directive.
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BackIn 2003, a Directive was issued for the purpose of family reunification that had to be implemented into national law by October 2005. Now the EU Commission wants to submit the rules to an evaluation and has published a Green Paper for this purpose in which institutions as well as the civil population are asked to take a position on the issue.
