Therefore, the European Commission and the EURES job network are organising hundreds of events Europe-wide where people looking for jobs can meet prospective employers.

23. Reaffirms that the European Employment and Job Mobility Network (EURES) network is an appropriate tool to ensure a transparent, responsible and effective balance between supply and demand in the labour market; therefore suggests expanding the concept of the EURES network to allow contact between European employers looking for workers with certain qualifications and job-seekers from third countries; proposes that Special Centres (already set up and to be set up) or EU Representations in third countries be used as a platform to extend the EURES network and to guarantee ongoing and expanded advice concerning tools and support for self ...[+++]-employment or recourse to micro-credit; stresses that Europe's need for highly skilled labour should not lead to a brain drain from third countries, with consequent damage to their emerging economies and social infrastructure;

23. Reaffirms that the European Employment and Job Mobility Network (EURES) network is an appropriate tool to ensure a transparent, responsible and effective balance between supply and demand in the labour market; therefore suggests expanding the concept of the EURES network to allow contact between European employers looking for workers with certain qualifications and job-seekers from third countries; proposes that Special Centres (already set up and to be set up) or EU Representations in third countries be used as a platform to extend the EURES network and to guarantee ongoing and expanded advice concerning tools and support for self ...[+++]-employment or recourse to micro-credit; stresses that Europe's need for highly skilled labour should not lead to a brain drain from third countries, with consequent damage to their emerging economies and social infrastructure;

5. Calls on European employment services and members of the EURES network to expand their activities with a view to providing their services throughout the EU and calls, therefore, on all the public employment services belonging to the network to arrange for vacancies and, later, the curricula vitae of job seekers to be input directly to the EURES database;

We have European employment network experts, and key policy officials from every Member State and the European Commission, with whom we have worked closely in organising the event".

Within the context of Europe, the OFDT is, for France, the focal point of the REITOX (European information network on drugs and drug addictions) network set up by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).