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"This is yet another tedious repetition of the European Commission’s standard rhetoric on issues of lifelong learning and promotion of mobility at EU level, which are considered the best guarantee of improving workers’ ‘employability’ and ‘adaptability’. Vocational training is viewed here as a means of promoting ‘entrepreneurship’ and of responding to the need to ‘create an environment where enterprises can succeed, develop and grow’, adding that ‘to grow, they need a reduced tax burden and predictability so they can plan and make investments’. It also believes that vocational training and lifelong learning must be geared more closely ‘to the needs of the labour market and allow for entry into and mobility within it’.
The report’s ideological framework suddenly becomes clear: the problem of employment is a problem for the individual and not an eminently social one, with the individual – and not society – having to solve it, whether by increasing their ‘employability’ or by becoming an ‘entrepreneur’; a tax system that is profit-friendly and, therefore, imposed mainly on workers and consumers; and education and training totally at the beck and call of capital. As for the rest, it does not examine the causes in depth, or seek solutions."@en1
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