In the labour market, emphasis must be placed on establishing a new framework for encouraging apprenticeship and vocational education and training, tackling undeclared work and streamlining existing labour laws and consolidating them into a Labour Law Code. Finally, in the field of public administration, a reform programme needs to be implemented, geared towards modernisation and de-politicisation.
No matter how policy makers and society at large decide, a better work-family balance on its own is not enough to maintain, far less to increase, economic strength in an ageing society. It is just as important that we do not surrender any of the progress that has already been achieved on the labour market.