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Launch event first finding European Company Survey 26 November 2013

From left to right: Mr Philippe de Buck, Member of the EESC; Ms Greet Vermeylen, research manager Eurofound; Ms Claudia Menne, Confederal Secretary of the European Trade Union Congress ETUC; Mr Juan Menendez-Valdes, Director, Eurofound; Mr Maxime Cerutti, Director, BusinessEurope.

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Despite recession, EU companies have difficulties finding workers with the right skills

In the midst of Europe’s greatest recession, 40% of all EU companies have difficulties finding workers with the right skills. For innovative companies, this is even more challenging. This emerges from Eurofound’s third European Company Survey (ECS), launched in Brussels on 26 November 2013. The European Company Survey (ECS) maps what is happening in companies across the European Union.

Eurofound, a tripartite European Union Agency, provides knowledge to assist in the development of social, employment and work-related policies

Eurofound (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions) is a tripartite EU body, whose mission is to provide knowledge to assist in the development of better social, employment and work-related policies.

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