Traduction de «market demand » (Anglais → Français) :

2. Is of the opinion that merely investing in ways of matching skills to labour market demands – in order to creating job opportunities – is not a sufficient means of ensuring economic recovery from the crisis; stresses that the lack of jobs is commonly the result of a lack of growth in Europe, and that, at present, skills mismatches are not yet the main cause for the high unemployment rates; agrees, however, that the existing skills mismatch will be a growing problem as the economy gradually recovers, and that continued efforts to bring education, training and the labour market closer together should therefore be reinforced at all lev ...[+++]els; reiterates that generating smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and job creation in Europe should be achieved through a holistic approach, with a clear economic and social vision boosted by a strong, smart and skilled workforce to complement the labour market needs;

16. Stresses that Member States and businesses should invest more in the right skills and diversify the types of training for jobs in demand, notably in technological sectors, by creating more flexible curricula, integrating entrepreneurship and transversal skills, in order to better adapt to future labour market developments; stresses the importance of enhancing youth mobility in particular by the early learning of foreign languages; calls on Member States to establish dual vocational education and training systems as an effective way of linking educational to labour market demands and reducing youth unemployment;

- Mr President, the key strategy the EU Commission has for Europe up to 2020 is reliance on neoliberal capitalism and a market system – in other words, the exact same factors that have plunged the world into the current economic chaos and illustrated in the Commission’s and EU governments’ response to the financial crisis in Greece: a shameful capitulation to the speculation and profiteering by the sharks in the financial markets; demanding that the Greek working class, pensioners and poor should have their services and living standa ...[+++]rds savaged to feed the insatiable greed of these financial markets, which are not some kind of an all-powerful god, as media commentators would have us believe, but investment banks, hedge-fund operators, bond holders and the like – parasites seeking super profits by deliberately speculating to create financial instability and then exploiting that to bleed working people. Is this the Europe we want for 2020?

Evolve: namely, make the Europe 2020 strategy a positive synthesis of the demands of businesses and those of workers, in support of a labour market where it is the flexicurity of employment contracts that responds to the instability of market demand.

11. Points out that all indicators show that the crisis is not over; warns in this context against a repetition of the mistakes made during the Great Depression, especially curbing wages; underlines the call of the OECD that governments will need to continue to stimulate their economies as rising unemployment and weak housing markets continue to dampen private demand and that the current low interest rates should remain in force for the time being; stresses the opportunity to transform their economies by heavily investing in ‘green’ and ‘white jobs’ in the area of sustainable development, public service and care and by promoting a reduction of working time without loss of pay in order to fight unemployment and allow workers to reconcile ...[+++]work and non-work life; criticises strongly the neo-liberal language in the Leaders’ Statement such as ‘to strengthen the ability of our workers to adapt to changing market demands’;

This may also be the case in markets with a limited — but sufficient — number of undertakings having diverging cost structures and facing price-elastic market demand.