Publications
Union of Skills: a key milestone in addressing the EU’s skills and labour shortages
5 March 2025 - BusinessEurope has reacted to today’s launch of the Union of Skills initiative. BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: "Addressing the skills and labour shortages...
Union of Skills – a joint employers’ input
Introduction
This note constitutes the joint views and priorities of BusinessEurope, SGI Europe and SMEunited as regards the policy priorities and measures that the Commission should consider for...
Education, training and skills
Education, training and skills
European Commission proposals to improve the quality of traineeships in the EU – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
BusinessEurope continues to state its opposition to an EU directive on traineeships. A reinforcing of the existing Council Recommendation alone would have been sufficient to address...
Education, training and skills
EU Action Plan on Labour and Skills shortages – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages:
BusinessEurope broadly welcomes the European Commission’s Action Plan on Labour and Skills shortages. This is a pressing social policy challenge that is impacting upon the product...
Education, training and skills
Proposal for a Regulation establishing an EU Talent Pool – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
BusinessEurope welcomes the proposal to setup an EU Talent Pool with an automated matching function to facilitate the targeted recruitment of third country nationals of all skills leve...
Education, training and skills
BusinessEurope reaction to EU action plan on labour and skills shortages
20 March 2024 - Reacting to the EU action plan on labour and skills shortages published today by the European Commission, just before the European Year of Skills comes to an end, BusinessEurope Direct...
Education, training and skills
Skills and Talent Mobility package: It is high time that the EU acknowledges the role of economic migration in helping to address Europe’s labour and skills needs
15 November 2023 - Welcoming today’s publication of the Skills and Talent Mobility package, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: “It is high time that the EU acknowledges the rol...
Education, training and skills
Council Recommendations on “Improving the provision of digital skills in education and training” and “Key enabling factors for successful digital education and training” – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
The attainment of basic, transversal and advanced digital skills across different learning pathways, starting with school level education through to lifelong learning, upskilling and r...
Education, training and skills
New survey of European companies highlights critical labour and skills shortages
30 October 2023 - BusinessEurope today published the results of a new survey of European companies which underscores the skills and recruitment challenges that they are facing.
BusinessEurope Direct...
Education, training and skills
Analysis of labour and skills shortages: Overcoming bottlenecks to productivity and growth
Introduction
There are currently a number of inter-linked challenges affecting the functioning of labour markets across Europe and which are resulting in significant labour and skills shortages. Thes...
Education, training and skills
Labour and skills shortages – Letter to Ursula Von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
Please check also the attachment to this letter...
Education, training and skills
Education, training and skills
Education, training and skills
Education, training and skills
The EU Skills and Talent Package – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
The EU’s economic migration policy has an important, complementary, role to play in helping to address labour and skills shortages, which are being experienced throughout all sectors...
Education, training and skills
Education, training and skills
Education, training and skills
Individual learning accounts – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
BusinessEurope is not convinced about the added value of an EU initiative focused on individual learning accounts. What is needed is a Council recommendation supporting the Member Stat...
Education, training and skills
Skills, innovation and the provision of, and access to training – Final report on the European social partners’ integrated project
Key messages
Employee training is mainly the responsibility of social partners. When organising employee training, national social partners need to take into account the realities of the labour mar...