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Section 3: EU Policy Developments

those threatened by unemployment, and those • Reducing early school-leaving.
furthest away from the labour market. • Increasing learning mobility.
• To ‘improve access to training, strengthen edu- • Making VET more attractive.
cation and career guidance combined with sys- • Modernising higher education.
tematic information on new job openings and • Promoting adult learning and validation of
opportunities’. non-formal and informal learning.
• To make efforts at promoting full participation • Combating youth unemployment.
in society and the economy and ‘extending • Implementing flexicurity policies.
employment opportunities’. • Fighting poverty and social exclusion.

These documents constitute the framework for A series of policy documents and actions, where
action. From them, the following priorities can be guidance has a key role to play, have been issued or
identified: are in progress. These are set out in the following sec-
tions, to ground the ELGPN thematic activities in an
EU policy context.

Policy

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