68. Calls on the Member States to continue the process of reform and development of effective public employment services so as to better target their activities and approaches on young people, as a fundamental component of any national Youth Guarantee strategies; stresses the need to introduce reforms to EURES with the aim of proactively matching jobseekers and job-changers to existing vacancies, as well as with the aim of raising awareness of EURES, including its advisory network, and increasing its visibility and availability, as a career advice system that helps students become more aware of ...[+++]existing job opportunities; highlights the need for closer coordination between EURES and other portals and services for citizens and business (examples being ‘EURES my first job’, the Europe Direct information points or the European Enterprise Network for SMEs), in order to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness on the part of the services provided; welcomes the work of the Heads of Public Employment Services (HoPES), and supports its institutionalisation;

6. Stresses the need to combat early school-leaving; stresses that without major integrated action, the Europe 2020 objective of reducing early school-leaving will not be achieved; calls on all actors to secure the transition from education and training to employment through dialogue among the individuals concerned, the education sector, employment services and social and family services, through better links between initial and ...[+++]further vocational training and youth employment so as to promote adequate training geared to the needs of labour market reintegration programmes offering a second chance, and through the introduction of dual education systems;

the services territorially responsible for the border regions of two or more Member States shall regularly exchange data relating to vacancies and applications for employment in their area and, acting in accordance with their arrangements with the other employment services of their countries, shall directly bring together and clear vacancies and applications for employment.

47. Regrets the approval of the Services Directive, concerning the liberalisation of services in the EU, and warns against the consequences of its implementation; recognises the importance of the services sector for economic growth and job creation, but takes the view that the liberalisation of services promotes labour deregulation, and social and environmental dumping, and jeopardises public services, jobs and social and consumer rights; stresses that governments are losing their regulatory and monitoring role in respect of service ...[+++] provision by foreign enterprises on their territory, contributing to further deregulation of the market; rejects the artificial division of economic and non-economic services of general interest and stresses that this is a way to put public services under the scope of the directive;

Experience shows the need for a close co-operation between employment and social services to avoid the development of two-tier systems depending on the status of jobseekers, and in promoting pathways for integration.

In view of the fears which have been expressed here and there in certain Member States of the Union, regarding the prospect of the massive and uncontrolled arrival of workers from the candidate countries, I believe that EURES should have a role to play here, by making it possible to anticipate difficulties, whether real or imagined, in particular by facilitating dialogue and by making it possible for the employment services of the countries concerned to work together with the various social partners involved in the major issue of job ...[+++]mobility in the Union as it is today and in the enlarged Union of tomorrow.