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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in implementing the European Employment Strategy, the European Union is seeking to establish the medium-term objectives of full employment, integrated into a context of political coordination, for every Member State.
considerable regional inequalities.
Lastly, I should like to emphasise that, in order for economic and national employment policies to be effectively coordinated and coherent, and to guarantee the effective achievement of the European Employment Strategy, the possibilities of the open method of coordination must be improved and exploited, without losing sight of the requirement for this method always to make transparency its top priority.
Mr Schmid, whom I shall take this opportunity to congratulate, highlights the positive effects and also some of the less successful aspects of the European Employment Strategy in the last five years. One of the problems that needs to be resolved is the poor transposition of the Strategy at the decision-making level in the field of employment. The open method of coordination is an important instrument for the implementation of this strategy. As everyone knows, this was designed for sectors in which the Member States retain their autonomy. Differences still remain, however, between national interests and European interests, hence the suggestion that every government should incorporate the national action plan into the development of common policies in the field of employment. The active support of the social partners and their contribution to the implementation and the integration of the Strategy’s priorities into their annual programmes is particularly relevant in areas such as lifelong learning, active ageing, equality between men and women and the modernisation of the organisation of work.
Account must also be taken of the consequences of enlargement for the current labour market in the European Union. If we are going to be able to improve the current situation between the common global policy at European level and the adoption of policies at national level, adjustments must be made to economic development, by harnessing human resources and creating new institutional structures, but also by strengthening the entrepreneurial spirit.
In Portugal, the National Employment Plan transposes the content of the Strategy to the Portuguese situation in an attempt to respond to the new challenges. In recent years, the Portuguese labour market has generally performed well. Structural weaknesses still remain, however, which only a coordinated medium and long-term strategy, with the active participation of the social partners, will enable us to overcome. Amongst these weaknesses I would highlight:
the low level of training
the significant effects of long-term and extremely long-term unemployment
the existence of a group with special difficulties in rejoining the labour market, comprising young people, older workers, women, ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities
a sectoral and entrepreneurial structure with serious shortcomings
low productivity"@en1
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