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First, may I thank you for your support. I knew that a progressive person of your experience would agree that English – and our mastering it in Greece – are very important. As far as the statistics which you quoted are concerned, we need to analyse the structure of unemployment in Greece. The rate of employment for men is exactly the same as the European average, but there is a huge difference in the rate of employment for women, which is 40% in Greece, compared with a Community average of 56%.
Similarly, there is a very serious youth unemployment problem. Here too, in comparison with other countries, unemployment is very high among the young in Greece, 29%, mainly because the various types of part-time employment found in numerous countries, including the country you referred to, are counted as full-time jobs.
According to the Commission's recommendations, what the Greek government needs to do is to focus more on policies for women and young people and on policies for older workers, because here again very few older workers are actually in employment.
These are the three main employment policy problems and, according to the national action plan which it has submitted, this is where the Greek government has focused its efforts. Of course, the Commission will continue to make recommendations where policies have not progressed as the Greek government promised, as it did in September this year and will again next September."@en1
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