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Unemployment is one of the main problems facing the candidate countries. In six of the 12 candidate countries, unemployment exceeds 10%, leading to social exclusion and poverty. Economic and monetary policies promoting economic growth and employment are needed, therefore, and should be driven by the public and cooperative sectors.
This unemployment can be blamed on the rapid destruction of planned economies, linked to waves of privatisation and the complete opening-up of markets, which have caused severe disruption not only of economic activity but also of public services themselves, in particular in the field of social security.
This very transformation is confirmed in the report’s explanatory statement, where it is said to have ‘further increased the proportion of the population who are threatened with poverty’ and caused the rise of ‘employment on insecure terms, e.g. on a temporary … basis’. This Commission communication, then, aims to transpose the European Employment Strategy, in its ‘post-Lisbon strategy’ form, to the candidate countries.
The latter do not appear to require greater occupational flexibility and mobility. Once again, the solution lies in a thorough revision of the EU’s entrenched neoliberal economic and monetary policies. The EU’s efforts to achieve economic and social cohesion should be redoubled."@en1
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