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What is needed to include vulnerable youths into the labour market?

Feb 08, 2018 Norway's government is calling for a joint initiative for youth inclusion. A laudable initiative. But government ministers should also look at the underlying structures if their measures are to achieve more than papering over the cracks. Perhaps we need to think differently about how to combine education and work.
Gothenburg EU summit: “We are taking the Nordic model to Europe" nyhet
| Nov 2017

Gothenburg EU summit: “We are taking the Nordic model to Europe"

Nov 16, 2017 The mood was very good as trade unions and voluntary organisations met ahead of the EU summit focusing on the social pillar.
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Katrín Jakobsdóttir tipped as Iceland's new Prime Minister

Nov 17, 2017 Iceland’s Left-Green Movement (VG) won Iceland’s parliamentary elections in late October. Party leader Katrín Jakobsdóttir will most probably become Prime Minister in a coalition government. Katrín would be the country’s second female head of government after Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.
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The Nordic region in Europe

Nov 24, 2017
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Juncker, Löfven

Norway launches initiative against work-related crime during EU summit tema
| Nov 2017

Norway launches initiative against work-related crime during EU summit

Nov 23, 2017 Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg seized the moment at the EU summit on social rights. She launched an offensive against work-related crime. Norway offers to work with an EU country to develop a more efficient control system.
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Sweden: New jobs model for refugees and long-term unemployed

Nov 23, 2017 The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) have reached an agreement in principle to make it easier for refugees and long-term unemployed to find jobs in Sweden. To make the agreement binding, both organisations’ affiliates must accept it. It is also dependent on public financing of parts of the workers’ wages.
The people and trade unions take EU to task over the social pillar tema
| Nov 2017

The people and trade unions take EU to task over the social pillar

Nov 23, 2017 With a mix of slogans from the trade union movement, cinnamon rolls and sweets, the Swedish government, led by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, tries to present the EU from a different perspective. During the social summit in Gothenburg the social partners were literally sitting around the same table as prime ministers and EU Commissioners.
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The Nordic region in Europe

Nov 22, 2017 The EU’s social pillar has been signed at the Social Summit in Gothenburg. Is there reason to fear it will challenge the Nordic model? What does the international trade union movement think? What do employers suggest, and what do the people and Europe’s leaders make of it?
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Newly arrived depend on social networks to find jobs

Nov 23, 2017 70 percent of newly arrived people in Sweden found jobs through social networks, compared to the 16 percent who found jobs via the employment service. The employment gap between native Swedes and those born abroad is still wide, however. It is particularly hard for people those with no upper secondary education, and for women.
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