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Meeting of Nordic Labour Ministers: Turning point for youth politics
How do you reach youths who are not in education nor employment? How do you motivate youth to finish their education? How do you secure a safe transition between school and working life? These were among the questions when labour ministers met to discuss youth unemployment in Copenhagen on 25 November.
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Hillevi Engström: more social responsibility needed in working life
Once the leading star of Swedish Police, Hillevi Engström is now in charge of whipping working life into line. She wants to use her role as Minister for Employment to challenge businesses to take social responsibility. In return she offers economical incentives and an improved education system.
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FMs Lavrov and Støre call border agreement small yet important
Norway’s and Russia’s Foreign Ministers signed an agreement on 2 November making it much easier for 9,000 Norwegians and 45,00o Russians to visit each other.
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Russian Arcady’s weekly commute to Finland
Many travel the 400 kilometres between Helsinki and St Petersburg on business. Yet despite improved communications, a common labour market still is some time away.
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OECD: the most exposed young must get help now
“If we want to avoid a generation of unemployed, it’s time to help the most exposed to get jobs or education. In the long term we need structural measures to improve the basic system,” says Stefano Scarpetta, the OECD’s deputy director for employment, labour and social affairs.
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Theme: Extending a helping hand to the jobless
Youth need to get back into jobs or education, or else we risk loosing a generation. It is therefore imperative to create job rich growth. We need to act now, and we need to help the weakest ones in the labour market first. That was the message when ILO and IMF and then the OECD,…
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Iceland’s new slimmed-down and EU-critical government
Iceland’s government has been cut from twelve to ten ministers. Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir says the ministerial posts will be cut further in the new year with the merging of several departments.
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Finland’s Anni Sinnemäki: passionate about an individually tailored welfare system
Finland’s Minister of Labour wants to make individuals visible. Young people should not be seen as a uniform group but as separate people with different needs. In Finland a lot of time has been spent analysing each person’s situation, and as a result, she says, the state can offer more rational measures tailored to the…
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Sweden’s Södertälje: a public-private solution to immigrant challenges
Södertälje in Sweden has more than 40 percent immigrants of foreign heritage. For some years the municipality received more refugees from war-ravaged Iraq than the USA and Canada combined, so it’s had its share of challenges when it comes to jobs, accommodation and traditional solutions. The result: extensive co-operation between municipality and businesses, with input…
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When Iceland’s trust vanished, comedian Jón Gnarr became mayor
Reykjavik citizens demonstrated their level of distrust in traditional politics and politicians by voting in comedian Jón Gnarr as their new mayor in last spring’s local elections. Mr Gnarr’s party, The Best Party, entered a coalition with the social democratic party Alliansen (Samfylkingin).
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