The aim of the regulation is to improve the access of employees to services supporting labour mobility in the EU, to facilitate fair mobility and to facilitate employees’ access to employment opportunities in the European Union. The free movement of workers is one of the four fundamental freedoms of the EU, and also a major component of the European citizenship.
For more than twenty years, EURES has helped people find jobs in another Member State, thereby reaping the benefits our internal market has to offer. The new regulation will build on this experience and bring further improvements: the network will be open to more partners, such as private employment services, and more jobs will be advertised on its job portal. In addition, the regulation aims at a better online matching between candidates and vacancies. Thanks to these novelties, EURES will adequately address the challenges related to skills mismatches on our labour markets and thus contribute to the fight against unemployment in the EU.
