ABSTRACT
European business needs a workforce that is skilled, well educated, flexible, plentiful, mobile and healthy. Fulfilment of these needs depends on a mixture of corporate action and policy at national and European levels. In response to these needs, the focus of
away from workers’ rights, the integrity of the SEM and the harmonisation of labour market regulations – which characterised the 1980s and early 1990s – towards the struggle against unemployment, efforts to improve labour market flexibility and the
In a few years we will be faced with a shortage of labour, not with a shortage of jobs. We should break away from this artificial segregation of nation from nation. Who is going to pay for the old age pensions and social services unless we have an addition to our population, which only immigration can provide in the years to come?
