ESU welcomes the new Skills Agenda but warns it can become a double edge sword

While ensuring that all citizens have the possibility to be equipped with adequate skills, many initiatives within the Skills Agenda are planned to primarily serve short-term labour market needs instead of the big societal challenges that Europe faces nowadays.
Today, the European Commission launched the New Skills Agenda for Europe, a new initiative for sustaining jobs, growth and competitiveness in the European Union. This initiative is led by the Commissioner Thyssen, in charge of Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, and contains a series of proposals, among others a Skills Guarantee, a revision of the Key Competences Framework and of the European Qualification Frameworks. More...