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This study provides an in-depth analysis of the formal and informal long-term care workforce in the EU building on an extensive literature survey and data analysis. It looks at workforce characteristics, types and forms of (non-standard) employment, and working conditions. The study covers challenges in Member States related to the long-term care workforce and measures taken to address these. It ends with a discussion of policy options at national and EU level.

La création et l'amélioration des emplois est l'un des objectifs principaux de la stratégie Europe 2020. La stratégie européenne pour l'emploi, ainsi que ses lignes directrices et ses programmes d'appui, tels que le Programme européen pour l'emploi et l'innovation sociale (EaSI), a été conçue pour favoriser la croissance et l'emploi, la mobilité professionnelle et le progrès social.

La dimension sociale de l'intégration européenne s'est fortement développée au fil des ans. Il s'agit d'un aspect essentiel de la stratégie Europe 2020 qui vise à assurer une «croissance inclusive» assortie d'un taux d'emploi élevé et d'une réduction du nombre des personnes vivant dans la pauvreté ou risquant l'exclusion sociale.

This document, provided by Policy Department A at the request of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, analyses the development of youth unemployment and of NEET youth (Neither in Employment, Education, Training) in Greece in a comparative perspective (Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal, Spain). It describes its specific features and gives an overview of national and European policy initiatives.

The EU response to the 2008 economic crisis, which has exposed the weaknesses of the EU economic governance of the time, has resulted in a debate on how to find a balance between intergovernmentalism and supranational actions within the EU framework, bringing into question further use of soft intergovernmental methods, such as the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). In addition to that, with social and education issues increasingly gaining attention in the EU, OMC, one of the governance instruments ...