The former Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Thorvald
Stoltenberg analysed Nordic defence and security cooperation, the
former Swedish Minister for Health Care and Social Security Bo Könberg
analysed the Nordic health sector and now it is the Nordic labour
market’s turn.
“We will now get a thorough analysis of an area which traditionally
has been very central to Nordic cooperation, but which in later years
has been overshadowed by developments in Europe,” says Dagfinn
Høybråten, the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of
Ministers.
Poul Nielson will also look at how the Nordic countries could
coordinate their labour market policies within the EU/EEA and in
organisations like the OECD and ILO.
Part of Poul Nielson’s work is also to launch initiatives which can
strengthen the Nordic Council of Ministers’ aims to improve employment
figures and reduce unemployment and to promote inclusive workplaces and
good working environments. As part of that analysis he will also
look at the Nordic tri-partite cooperation.
“I look forward to the task and to work with the Nordic Council of
Ministers and all of the other actors in the Nordic region,” says Poul
Nielson.
Nielson will spend the spring and autumn of 2015 visiting all of the
Nordic countries plus the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland to meet
the ministers responsible for labour life as well as the social
partners. There are also plans for meetings with authorities,
researchers, social commentators, representatives from NGOs and others
involved with Nordic labour cooperation.
