The Confederation of Danish Employers (DA) supports the European Commission's focus on vocational education and training and lifelong learning as a driver for increased competitiveness, but warns against unnecessary regulation that may restrain national solutions.

2025 should be the Year of Vocational Education and Training. This is the opinion of the Danish government and a number of organisations, who will celebrate vocational education and training throughout the year with several initiatives. The government and all other political parties of the Danish Parliament have allocated approximately 671,000 EUR (DKK 5 million) to the project.

Increased use of AI in the public sector can eliminate current tasks and support smarter workflows. It will make the daily lives of many public sector employees easier. And by 2040, it could free up around 6,000 employees per year. They would be able to perform other tasks in the public or private sector instead. These are some of the findings in a new report commissioned by the Confederation of Danish Employers, DA. Based on the report, DA has made seven recommendations to politicians on how to ensure a wise and targeted phasing-in of AI in the public sector.

The Nordic employers' organisations have issued a joint call for the need to strengthen the competitiveness of European businesses through less bureaucracy, strengthened social dialogue and greater respect for national labour market models.