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Challenges to welfare state at top of ministers’ in tray

Youth unemployment has high political priority in the Nordic region. At the latest Nordic Council of Ministers meeting, labour ministers agreed to encourage employers to take on some of the responsibility for young people who don’t work and who are not in education.
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Meeting in Svalbard

Lauri Ihalainen (Finland), Hillevi Engström (Sweden), Hanne Bjurstrøm (Norway) and Fredrik Karlström (Åland) in front of the Svalbard Governor’s vessel.  

Conclusions from the meeting of labour ministers

Challenges to the welfare state

The follow-up to discussions on the challenges to labour market and welfare policies as a consequence of immigration will focus on four themes:

  1. To increase employment among immigrants with a focus on language as the key to integration.
  2. To strengthen Nordic cooperation on the implementation of the Posting of Workers Enforcement Directive.
  3. To analyse the extent of posted workers in the Nordic region. 
  4. To cooperate on the consequences of a possible growth in immigration from Southern Europe.


Youth unemployment

In the follow-up to discussions on youth unemployment the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Committee of Senior Officials was encouraged to cooperate with Nordic employers’ organisations in order to map ‘best practice’ when it comes to how companies contribute to getting young people without further education or work into the labour market. The mapping aims to showcase good examples both of initiatives from businesses and those coming as a result of public incentives. The aim is to increase awareness of the importance of businesses when it comes to reducing youth unemployment and to create inspiration for other businesses.  

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