The ministerial UfM (Union for the Mediterranean) meeting on work and employment, held on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 September and co-chaired by EU Social Affairs, Employment and Mobility Commissioner Marianne Thyssen and Jordanian labour minister Ali Al-Ghezawi(see EUROPE 11631), focused on the challenge of disillusioned young people without a job, who add to the influx of migration.
UfM secretary general Fathallah Sijilmassi attended the meeting, but no details have yet emerged about the...