28. Points to the considerable differences between residents in rural and urban areas as regards access to training, employment and quality of work; attaches considerable importance to the right of all these residents, particularly the youngest and most vulnerable, to receive a proper education, with vocational training and university studies, and therefore calls on the Member States and the Commission to support these groups through an effective system of active policies and appropriate trai ...[+++]ning measures so as to enable them to adjust swiftly to job market requirements;

For that reason I would like to ask you how the European Parliament can work with the Commission to encourage countries which have not yet done so to adjust their national legal systems and sign up to and form territorial groupings of this kind?

Skills mismatches are often a major cause of imbalances in the supply and demand for labour across sectors and regions, and the rapidly changing world of work make increasing demands on people to equip themselves with the capacity to adapt to new ways of working, technologies, sectors and working environments.

Skills mismatches are often a major cause of imbalances in the supply and demand for labour across sectors and regions, and the rapidly changing world of work make increasing demands on people to equip themselves with the capacity to adapt to new ways of working, technologies, sectors and working environments.

Nevertheless, I should like to tell you that, at the Ghent Summit and, of course, at the request of the presidency of the European Union, the Commission has undertaken work on examining this issue in all its aspects and, therefore, on listing laboratories, in an attempt to see what type of response we can provide. At the Commission meeting yesterday, a joint briefing sheet was issued by Mr Byrne, the Commissioner responsible for Health and Consumer protection, to Mr Liikanen and myself, to see how we can implement, at European Union level, in agreement, of course with the Member States, closer coordination in order to achieve our objecti ...[+++]ves, without necessarily creating an Agency.

It could be excluding fellow workers in particular dynamics of a job. It could be not extending a hand that I would extend to someone I consider a friend or someone who is like me in the workplace, showing them the ropes, showing them how to manoeuvre through the politics of the office.