In the society we want to build, work allows a good quality of life without competing with self-development, family time or leisure. This is why we want progressive, properly paid maternity, paternity, parental and carer leave arrangements

as well as affordable, high quality and accommodating care services for children, the elderly and other dependants. This is also why we think that gains in productivity enabled by new technologies should be seen as opportunities to increase wages or further reduce working time without loss of revenue. Technology should not create new gaps in our societies, which is why both the technology and the essential services that are digitalised must remain accessible to all.

Similarly, the EU must continue to invest in its population. It must start with the youngest in our society, with equal access to education and a Child Guarantee to fight the most striking form of poverty. In particular, early childhood education and care should better target the lesser off households to better prevent social exclusion.

Second, it must help the next generation to find a job with a reinforced, permanent Youth Guarantee to avoid repeating the youth unemployment disaster experienced after the financial crisis.

Third, it must help the unemployed back to employment, setting up active labour market policies that guarantee a quality individual offer to each jobseeker (job offer, training, further education).

Fourth, it must help workers who face job losses, whether due to globalisation, digitalisation, environmental effects or territorial economic crises. We will turn the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund into a Just Transition Fund to ensure investment in skills, competences and professional prospects.

We will also make sure it can support workers who want to buy out their companies rather than letting it close its doors. With the European Social Fund, the EU proved that it is ready to spend money for the training and the qualifications of its workers, for social inclusion and for the fight against poverty. We will make sure these funds are strengthened and given the possibility to adapt to any challenge and to reach the most vulnerable.