The Eures Cross-Border Partnership - An Important Means in the Development of the Labour Market in the Cross-Border Area

Abstract

The labour market in the cross-border areas has always triggered an evident interest from local and national authorities, but also on the part of the institutions of the European Union or of the Council of Europe. However, the policies and measures created in frontier areas did not produce consistent and integrative effects to ensure a harmonious development of the frontier labour market. For these reasons, along time, there were created several legal instruments which had as their objective the creation of synergies between public and private actors with responsibilities in the management of the labour market in the cross-border area.The study aims to present the EURES cross-border partnership from the perspective of a legal construction to create those key elements needed for the construction of a genuine European labour market. Thus, in the first part of the study we presented the concept of the EURES cross-border partnership and how it materializes at the level of the European Union. The second part of our analysis is devoted to the presentation of the only EURES cross-border partnership being established between the states of the Carpathian Euro-region, more precisely between Hungary and Slovakia, which carries the name: Danubius. In the last part of the study we presented the main features of the labour market in the cross-border of Romania and Hungary, as well as our proposal for the establishment of a EURES cross-border partnership between public employment services of all Romanian-Hungarian frontier regions, together with trade unions and business organizations. Also, we consider that an important role in strengthening the partnership can have: the regional and local authorities and their associations, and organizations dealing with vocational training and higher education institutions in the frontier regions.