EU urged to address paradox of high unemployment and skills shortages

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Series Details 06.06.13
Publication Date 06/06/2013
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While many countries around the world are opening their borders and are introducing more flexible and liberal migration policies, the EU is not following the trend. This has led to the paradoxical problem of labour shortages in crucial sectors at a time of very high youth unemployment, experts say.
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ESO: Background Information: Memo: EU measures to tackle youth unemployment http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-eu-measures-to-tackle-youth-unemployment/
Blog: LSE EUROPP, 06.06.13: Training the unemployed: Much ado about nothing? http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/06/06/training-the-unemployed-much-ado-about-nothing/
CEDEFOP: Press Release, 05.06.13: Renewing vocational education and training to tackle skill mismatch: work-based learning and apprenticeship for all? – a Cedefop conference http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/news/21476.aspx
BBC News, 14.06.13: Merkel tells young Europeans to move to find work http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22906820
ESO: Background Information: Germany to provide aid to SMEs in EU’s struggling South http://www.europeansources.info/record/germany-to-provide-aid-to-smes-in-eus-struggling-south/
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