Investment in people key to boosting economic competitiveness in Europe
Europe can improve neither its economic competitiveness nor its social cohesion with such high levels of unemployment and without higher employment rates.
Europe can improve neither its economic competitiveness nor its social cohesion with such high levels of unemployment and without higher employment rates.
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That is why the European Commission made inclusive growth one of the key objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, and now advocates more and better-focused investment in people and their skills.
The European Social Fund (ESF) plays a major role in the EU in helping people to keep their jobs or to find a new one. I am pleased that Scotland is successfully using the Social Fund to boost employment, increase the quality of its workforce and labour productivity and promote social inclusion, for example by enabling disadvantaged people to gain access to employment.
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Investment in people key to boosting economic competitiveness in Europe
Europe can improve neither its economic competitiveness nor its social cohesion with such high levels of unemployment and without higher employment rates.
That is why the European Commission made inclusive growth one of the key objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, and now advocates more and better-focused investment in people and their skills.
The European Social Fund (ESF) plays a major role in the EU in helping people to keep their jobs or to find a new one. I am pleased that Scotland is successfully using the Social Fund to boost employment, increase the quality of its workforce and labour productivity and promote social inclusion, for example by enabling disadvantaged people to gain access to employment.
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