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Commissioner László Andor - Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

Major reforms needed to improve the quality of care for older people, says new report  

According to a new OECD report sponsored by the European Commission. the fastest-growing age group are people over 80 whose number will almost triple by 2060, rising from 4.6% of the population to 12% in 2050 in the European Union.

Commissioners Malmström and Andor welcome the new OECD report on international migration trends  

European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström and László Andor, the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, have welcomed the OECD report International Migration Outlook 2013, published today.

Joint Statement on the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour  

On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour (12 June), EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/EC Vice-President Catherine Ashton, Vice-President and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor and Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström made the following statement:

Health and Safety: Commission welcomes Parliament adoption of new rules to protect EU workers from harmful electromagnetic fields  

Commissioner Andor welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament of the Commission's proposal for a Directive to update and improve EU rules to protect workers from electromagnetic fields in their workplace.

Speech: Promoting social cohesion and solidarity at a time of growing inequalities, Gini Conference, Amsterdam  

Austerity may have been the necessary response for the short term — given the lack of a better design for the Economic and Monetary Union and in the absence of more solidarity — but it has made the crisis worse and it cannot represent the solution for the years to come.