Report

Does diversity policy make the difference?

In this contribution managing director Fons Leroy of the VDAB deals with the diversity policy of the VDAB, the Flemish Employment Service, and this from the perspective of migrant employment seekers. This contribution provides some critical reflections on the current diversity policy.


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Migrant's integration on labor market

Michèle Claus of the VBO/FEB exposes in this contribution the vision of employers on the problem of accessibility of the labour market for migrant workers. This contribution presents the sources of this problem, and touches some areas of reflection for a remedy.


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Report

Flash Itinera Factchecking

The budget debate in our country confronts us with the need for greater fiscal coordination at European level, the think tank Itinera argues. For Belgium the think tank sees but one good remedy: save on public spending at all levels.

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Opinion piece

Strategy alone can arrest our industrial decline


Marc De Vos sees the rhetoric of indignation surrounding company restructuring as little more than dereliction of duty. The decline of our manufacturing is structural and can only be stopped with structural measures. Both the federal and the regional level are in play.

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Opinion piece

Crisis, what crisis?

It’s important to consider that the euro crisis still is awaiting fundamental answers. The ECB only bought time. Measures to reduce the fundamental instability of the Western economies are still needed.


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