Europe 2020 Strategy

Finland's National Reform Programme, Spring 2017

The European Council adopted a Strategy for Growth and Employment in 2010. The vision of the Europe 2020 Strategy, which extends to 2020, is smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth. The strategy sets EU-wide targets for employment, research and development expenditure, climate measures, education and reducing poverty. Every Member State sets its own corresponding national targets.

Finland’s national targets are raising the employment rate of 20–64 year-olds to 78%, spending a minimum of 4% of GDP on R&D, achieving the climate and energy targets agreed in the EU, maintaining the proportion of 30–34 year-olds having completed tertiary-level education at 42%, reducing the proportion of 18–24 year-old early school leavers to 8%, and reducing the number of people living at risk of poverty and social exclusion.

The European Council adopts for all Member States recommendations aimed at guiding national decisionmaking and supporting employment. The recommendations given to Finland in 2016 relate to the long-
term sustainability of public finances, improving the cost-effectiveness of health and social services, reducing unemploy-ment and increasing competition in service sectors as well as promoting entrepreneurship and
investment by reducing the administrative and regulatory burden.

The Government now presents the ninth Europe 2020 National Reform Programme. The programme describes the measures the Government has initiated in order to achieve the national targets and how the country-
specific recommendations given by the EU have been taken into consideration. The information provided in the programme will facilitate a more detailed examination of Finlandsituation at the EU level.

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