Brussels, 16/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on 17/18 November, the Council of Europe is holding a forum on reconciling flexibility at work and social cohesion, to be opened by Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and attended by Danish labour minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen, Slovenian labour, family and social affairs minister Janez Drobnic, French employment, social cohesion and housing minister, Jean-Louis Borloo, and Mexican labour and social affairs minister (and chair of the Inter-American Conference of Labour Ministers at the Organisation of American States), Francisco Xavier Salazar. The forum will look at whether flexibility at work is required to meet the challenge of globalisation, how work will change in the future and measures to accompany labour flexibility and ensure social cohesion. The Council of Europe's Director General for Social Cohesion, Alexander Vladychenko, will make the concluding speech. (Info: http://www.coe.int )