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"The present report sheds light on Swedish occupational welfare, with a special focus on occupational pension schemes and different forms of occupational unemployment protection and prevention, and what has been and still is the role of various actors, focusing primarily on social partners and the State. The report shows that occupational welfare has traditionally been a supplement to statutory social welfare. This is still the case, but the progressive retrenchment of statutory benefits has led to a more prominent role for occupational schemes. This is the case for occupational pensions: 90% of the working population is covered and occupational benefits represent about ¼ of pensioners' income. This is also the case for unemployment-related schemes. Occupational unemployment funds top up the Ghent system while the Employment Transitional Agreements supplement statutory active labour market policies. The methodology and the data collection behind the report were broad-based. The results are based on relevant research, reports and essays published in the matter during the last decades, available statistical and administrative data and interviews with representatives from three key stakeholder groups. In Sweden, workers in the retail and automotive industries are all covered by central agreements between the confederation of Trade unions, Landsorganisationen (LO), and the confederation of Swedish employees, Svenskt Näringsliv (SN). White collar employees and professionals working in these sectors are covered by agreements between SN and PTK, a collaborative organisation that makes agreements in the private sector for the Confederation of white collar employees, Tjänstemännens centralorganisation (TCO) and the Confederation of Professional Associations, Sveriges Akademikers Centralorganisation (Saco). We have conducted interviews with these social partners in this report."

"This paper is the result of critical discussions held in the framework of the SALTSA project on the post-2010 continuation of the Lisbon process. The general conclusion is that Europe will continue to need, in the future, a common strategy for growth and sustainable development which builds on the experiences of the ‘old' Lisbon strategy. That is why the paper starts with analysing the Lisbon process and discussing its various shortcomings. The author argues that a genuinely new strategy will have to adopt a generally different approach when setting priorities. "

"The EU's Lisbon Strategy, adopted in 2000, set ambitious goals, a roadmap for achieving them and quantitative targets for 2010. Despite the view in some quarters just a few years ago that the Nordic countries were neither sustainable nor competitive, these countries have subsequently risen to become some of Europe's most consistent performers in the efforts to reach the Lisbon targets. The intention of this book is to document how good governance has been developed in the Nordic countries. It proposes some relevant lessons for European decision-makers while highlighting individual features of the countries in the Nordic region."