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"The fact that we regularly discuss the general state of education and training across the whole EU helps us assess the progress made towards achieving the common targets. Cooperation on education and training can certainly help fulfil the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy. We must make greater efforts not only to reduce the school dropout rate, but also to increase the percentage of higher-education graduates, including by providing support to young people who come from families experiencing financial difficulties.
Early years education is, for its part, an extremely valuable factor contributing to further personal development. We cannot afford to abandon this training aspect, which has a positive long-term impact on national budgets and on public health, helping reduce anti-social behaviour later on.
Lifelong learning must also be encouraged at a time when the retirement age is steadily rising in Europe and employees are required to have an increasingly varied skills set.
We fully acknowledge the importance of citizens’ involvement in cross-border mobility programmes, but we have not managed yet to remove the obstacles hampering labour mobility. The time has come for us to expand the extremely restricted list of professions recognised at EU level and to remove existing barriers in Member States."@en1
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