” ” ” “"Creating a favourable environment for the business world offers more opportunity for economic development and more security for workers. Flexibility and security are in fact two related words": Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of Businesseurope (an organisations that brings together 39 employer associations from 33 countries) comments the three-party social summit that took place in Lisbon, the result of which was a shared position with the European trade unions on flexisecurity. "We have to think of today’s workers but we have to think of tomorrow’s ones as well", adds the French businessman. Who explains: "The Lisbon agreement is a good thing; now it must be enforced and applied, adapting it to the different conditions of each country". José Manuel Barroso, who attended the three-party summit, speaks of economy. He says he is "worried about the dollar/euro exchange rate and about trade between China and the European Union". Subjects, these ones, "that we mean to tackle at the EU-China summit that has been planned for November".” “
