Strasbourg, 08/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - Adopting Herman Schmid's report on strengthening the local dimension of the European Employment Strategy, the European Parliament stressed the need to tangibly link up national and local employment action plans, closely linking them together and sharing supplementary work out among national, regional and local authorities. It calls on the Commission to take new initiatives to promote the exchange of positive experience at local level between local an...