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François Biltgen attends the inauguration of Employment Week in Brussels

Date of release : 13-04-2005

Policy area : Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs


Reviewing the Lisbon strategy and the European Social Fund are at the core of the 12th annual Conference "Employment Week 2005", which takes place on 12–14 April in Brussels.

As the current president of the Council of Ministers of Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs (called EPSCO), François Biltgen participated as Minister of Labour and Employment in launching "Employment Week 2005", which is the main event in Europe in the field of employment, economic development and training.

In the presence of Odile Quintin, the Commission’s General Director of "Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities", François Biltgen inaugurated the Employment Week fair.

François Biltgen welcomed the results of the European Council of 22 and 23 March 2005, during which the Luxembourg Presidency succeeded in re-launching the Lisbon Strategy. This strategy is refocused on lasting, economic growth paired with a quantitative and qualitative improvement in employment.

For the Minister, the engines for re-launching the Lisbon Strategy will be research and development (R&D), innovation and valuation of human capital and creating an attractive framework for companies and workers. The social dialogue will remain the primary goal enabling one to reach social cohesion on the European level.

According to François Biltgen, only better governance will be able to offer Europe the anticipated results. Thus, he emphasized that the new, integrated guidelines will focus on the "Broad Economic Policy Guidelines" (BEPGs) and on the "European Employment Strategy" (EES), and that national reform programs, developed in cooperation with all of the national players, especially labour partners, will be called upon to bring our ambitions to reality.



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