The European Commissioner for Employment, Laszlo Andor, warned that Spain will fail to curb unemployment only and advised labor reform to encourage investment in education, enhancing social economy and end the underground economy.
"Reforms of labor policy must form part of the package of solutions, but by themselves are worth," said the commissioner in a debate on the crisis of sovereign debt held at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels.
"We must find new forms of investment in education, training, learning throughout life to provide a more flexible adjustment of the workforce," he said.
It is also necessary, as Andor, admit that the recession of the Spanish economy is due to the economic structure and give an "essential role" industrial policy to create quality jobs.
"Spain can also better use its capacity to develop the social economy," he said, citing the case of the Basque Country as a "good example" to maintain higher standards of living and avoid unemployment.
"I think The Basque Country has half the unemployment rate the national average. There are no good examples within Spain itself that you can copy and share," he said.
"Spain is the country with the most critical situation. If we can respond to Spain we can answer all the critical situations that may occur in Europe," emphasized the Commissioner on the employment situation of the country, which has the highest rate of unemployment in the EU .
Andor considered another problem in Spain is the economy and said that the ideal would be to take this activity to the light.
The commissioner stressed, however, you can not highlight a single cause to explain the high rate of unemployment or a single idea for the solution.
Andor responded to a question from the Spanish Socialist MEP Alejandro Cercas on fiscal consolidation and the need for Spain to have an contractual basis of quality.
Source: Reuters
