02/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - UNICE has welcomed confirmation, in the European Commission report on employment in Europe in 2001, "of the fact that the Lisbon Strategy is starting to pay off in terms of employment performance in Europe" (see EUROPE of 18 July, p.11). Employment performance in Europe is improving, but, with unemployment still at 8.2% for Europe as a whole and an expected economic downturn, "there is no time for complacency", say the European employers, for whom, the Commission...