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9th European Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organization in Oslo







 

The Norwegian capital Oslo hosted the 9th European Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) this week. In the Bulgarian tripartite delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Policy Deyana Kostadinova employers were represented by BCCI’s President Tsvetan Simeonov and the trade unions – by the CITUB’s President Plamen Dimitrov.
 
Government, worker and employer representatives from 51 European and Central Asian member States gather in Oslo to discuss the way forward for the region in the context of the continuing financial, economic and social crisis.
 
The Meeting opened with an urgent call for effective employment and social policies that can achieve growth and competitiveness with good jobs.
 
„The crisis in Europe is dramatic. A financial crisis has turned into a jobs crisis. In some countries there is now a lost generation of young people; out of a job, out of training and out of the market. More people are becoming permanently inactive and unemployable,” Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.
 
ILO Director-General Guy Ryder added that “we face a continuing economic and employment crisis with no obvious solution in sight,” urging the Conference to propose “effective actions to achieve recovery” in a speech delivered at a high level panel of heads of States and Agencies. According to the latest ILO data, the crisis has left over 26.3 million Europeans unemployed– 10.2 million more than when the global financial crisis erupted in 2008.
 
BCCI’s President has commented on the findings ascertained during the first plenary sessions that in countries which boast of flexible forms of employment which are actively used, the labor market is in much better condition – as is the case in Germany, for example.
 
"The increase in public debt should be used very cautiously," BCCI’s President said. "If this move is made to improve education – that is another thing, but if is used for direct subsidizing  of relief funds and other approaches that only consume resources without contributing to a better perspective of those who receive them, it is unacceptable", insisted Simeonov.
 
Tripartite Oslo Declaration  Here

12.04.2013

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