With regard to the Pact on Migration and Asylum, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union has committed itself to “bringing the positions of the Member States closer together” by the end of the present six-month period.
The Portuguese Minister for Home Affairs, Eduardo Cabrita, who chaired the informal videoconference of Home Affairs Ministers yesterday, reports that there is “progress” in the negotiation between the 27, emphasising the commitment of the Portuguese Presidency and the European Commission to finding a “balance between responsibility and solidarity” in the external aspect of migration and the relationship with third countries.
Eduardo Cabrita added that the Member States have made advances “on the technical level” in many of the dossiers that make up this agenda, for example, the regulation on the European Asylum Support Office, and that they are “very close to an overall agreement on the new asylum regulations”. Debate on the
The High-Level Conference on the Future of Work, organised under the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, was on the theme of “Remote Working: Challenges, Risk and Opportunities”. Throughout the day, the different speakers looked at the changes in the labour market in recent years, particularly the new ways of working and of organising working time, reconciling professional and personal life and the right to disconnect.
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Session I - “Teleworking: an overview of the trends, opportunities, challenges and risks”
The panel, moderated by the Deputy Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, Miguel Cabrita, focused on the challenges of teleworking, which have become more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 27 countries in the European Union, 86% of people had never worked from home before the pandemic. The highest percentage of teleworking is in the north of Europe.
Today, the Commission released key data on the behaviour of consumers in 2020. The results of a survey, conducted at the end of 2020, illustrate the impact …
The changes in the labour market in recent years, as well as reconciling professional and personal life and the right to disconnect, were some of the topics on the programme for the High-Level Conference on the Future of Work, held at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, today.
The conference, organised under the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, addressed the theme of “Remote Working: Challenges, Risk and Opportunities” and was attended by the Portuguese Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, and by the Portuguese Deputy Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, Miguel Cabrita.
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