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    Skills shortage threat to SMEs – EUbusiness Week newsletter 805

    npsBy nps24 November 2017Updated:12 July 2024 Newswire No Comments6 Mins Read
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    EUbusiness Week 805 top stories: Smaller businesses back to pre-crisis employment levels; UK’s EU agencies set for Amsterdam, Paris after Brexit; Online shopping rules aim to end geo-blocking; EU states endorse new rules for organic farming; Not enough prevention: EU health systems report; Brussels fines seatbelt, airbag cartel EUR 34m

    Publisher’s Note

    This week was Vocational Skills Week, with events across Europe providing opportunities to promote and recognise the importance of vocational skills acquired on the job.

    But skills shortages and mismatches are having a negative impact on growth and job creation in smaller businesses, says employers’ organisation UEAPME representing Crafts and SMEs. These rely for their recruitment on modern education systems adapted to the needs of the labour market. “We need to improve the bridges between vocational training and general education at all levels,” says UEAPME Secretary General Veronique Willems.
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    Nick Prag
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    1. Smaller businesses back to pre-crisis employment levels

    Employment levels and value added in Europe’s smaller businesses rose for the third consecutive year in 2016, exceeding 2008 levels for the first time since the financial crisis, an EU report showed Thursday.
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    2. UK’s EU agencies set for Amsterdam, Paris after Brexit

    EU 27 ministers on Monday selected Paris as the new seat for the European Banking Authority, and Amsterdam as the new seat for the European Medicines Agency, to follow Britain’s exit from the EU.
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    3. Online shopping rules aim to end geo-blocking

    New EU rules on online shopping, provisionally agreed by the EU institutions, mean that online buyers of goods or services from another EU country must be treated like local customers.
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    4. EU states endorse new rules for organic farming

    EU states’ representatives have endorsed a deal to overhaul existing rules on organic production and labelling of organic products, provisionally agreed with the European Parliament in June.
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    5. Not enough prevention: EU health systems report

    Only 3 per cent of EU countries’ health budgets is spent on prevention, with 80 per cent spent on treatment of diseases, the Commission reported Thursday in a set of 28 ‘country health profiles’.
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    6. Brussels fines seatbelt, airbag cartel EUR 34m

    The Commission has imposed fines of EUR 34 million on five car safety equipment suppliers to Japanese car manufacturers in the European Economic Area for breaching antitrust rules.
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    Bialowieza: Poland will have to pay a EUR 100,000 penalty per day if it continues banned logging activities in the EU-protected Bialowieza Forest, one of Europe’s last remaining primeval forests, the EU’s top court has ruled.
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    27 Nov: 15 years anniversary of the General Food Law
    27-30 Nov: Personalising your health: a global imperative
    27 Nov: Rapid risk assessment for animal disease outbreaks
    27 Nov: European electricity regulation conference
    27-30 Nov: European Parliament Committee Meetings
    27 Nov: Foreign Affairs Council
    28 Nov: Care homes for older Europeans
    28 Nov: 5th EASA airworthiness directives workshop
    28 Nov: European Tourism Day 2017
    29 Nov: Empowering postal consumers
    29-30 Nov: Cedefop ReferNet annual plenary meeting 2017
    29-30 Nov: European Parliament plenary session
    30 Nov-1 Dec: Competitiveness Council
    30 Nov-1 Dec: Data anonymisation workshop
    1 Dec: EU Refining Forum
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