SIR EUROPA: FROM TODAY TO 29TH SEPTEMBER, THE EU JOB DAYS. ŠPIDLA (EU COMMISSION), "ENCOURAGING MOBILITY" (2)

Fairs, workshops, seminars: many are the happenings that will be held all over the EU until Saturday for the European Job Days 2007. In particular, the special Day in Brussels, which will end the week, on 29th September, "will be the first event ever held at the Commission’s head-quarters, the Berlaymont, in the presence of 60 employers in search of staff". The event – explains a note from the Executive – will be unveiled by Commissioner Špidla and "will have as its special guest Justine Henin, the world’s greatest female tennis player". In addition, the advisors of the Euros service will be there "to give advice and illustrate the operation of the web portal". So far, the website www.eures.europa.eu (translated into the official languages of the EU) has hosted one million two hundred thousand job offers, nearly 300 thousand curriculum vitae and eleven thousand employers. The Job Days 2007 are part of the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the EEC and the European Year of Equal opportunities for Everyone.” ” ” “