Spanish ministers outline Council Presidency priorities
The Spanish Presidency will focus on defining the 2020 growth and employment strategy - immigration minister Celestino Corbacho told the Employment and Social Affairs Committee on Wednesday 27 January. "In the short term, this strategy must include structural measures to tackle the problem of unemployment - particularly youth unemployment, and in the long term, it must enable us to be competitive in a globalised economy", he said. This strategy must "contain concrete objectives, because the Commission's consultation document has vague, all-incompassing ideas", said Parliament's rapporteur on the 2010 employment guidelines Csaba Ory (EPP, HU).
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