Spidla added: "Flexisecurity is a compromise between the rights and the duties of employees, enterprises and public authorities". For the Executive, "Flexisecurity strategies can contribute to modernizing European work markets, with the aim of better tackling the challenges and the opportunities of globalization". The note submitted to Brussels depicts proposals with eight "common principles of flexisecurity". Among other things, they include: strengthening of the EU strategy for growth and employment; "search for balance between rights and duties"; permanent training; "adaptation of flexisecurity to the different circumstances, needs and challenges which the member States must face"; "reduction of the gap between those who have atypical or precarious employment" and those who can rely on permanent jobs; parity of sexes; "a fair distribution of the costs and benefits deriving from flexisecurity". Finally, the Commission recalls that "the financial instruments of the EU for cohesion in particular, the European Social Fund can contribute to the financial aspects of flexisecurity, by supporting training initiatives on a firm level, and programmes of permanent learning, or by encouraging entrepreneurship".
