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Mr President, the report by Mr Ribeiro e Castro has been the starting point for an in-depth debate on a question which is one of the biggest challenges to European policy, i.e. the European labour market. Until now, employment strategies, guidelines and recommendations have been of a strictly national nature. But national action plans relate to national labour markets and what we refer to as the European labour market is clearly developing throughout Europe. By which we mean new demands, identical demands regarding the quality of the qualifications of people looking for jobs throughout Europe.
There is very little mobility of workers within Europe. A mere 0.4%. The standard response to mobility problems is to cite cultural differences. The question of language, culture and national education systems. However, there is clearly more to it than that. There are pension problems and insurance problems and regulations on movements of workers and their pensions need to work better and faster, as we have already heard. There is the important problem of information, which several speakers have already touched on; the information which jobseekers need to be given on their rights, labour market conditions, accommodation, their children's education, their pension rights and the facility to transfer their rights if they return home. These are problems of a national and European nature; they are already on the agenda of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs but there are still huge differences of opinion.
EURES is instrumental to the creation of this European labour market. Parliament is supporting the Commission in this endeavour, as it has done since 1993, as can be seen from this year's budget, which is in the order of EUR 13 million. EURES already has operational experience and there has been an increase in the demand for information, an increase in the movement of information at transnational level, which reached 40% last year, proving that we need to keep and expand EURES.
I should like to touch on certain choices made by the Commission in order to promote and strengthen this tool. First, there is greater collaboration between the heads of public services, more and more of which are deciding to incorporate EURES in their databases, so that they can provide their customers with common services. We are currently studying the possibility of extending the range of services to both jobseekers and employers. The Commission will announce a new EURES service from June onwards which will allow jobseekers in specific sectors in which there is a shortage to file their CVs via the Internet and, at the same time, will allow employers to register for this service.
Now that it has been up and running for 8 years, we have asked the Member States to include problems or new services which might be demanded of EURES in their questionnaires and we shall be presenting Parliament with a report based on these questionnaires.
I should like to close by pointing out that enlargement will force us to reconsider this tool; for the moment, however, we need to develop it between the Member States to the maximum. Finally, I think it is worth mentioning that the legal basis for EURES needs to be revised, so that EURES can be adapted and improved to meet the future demands on these services."@en1
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