Press Release: G8 employment ministers meet to strengthen social dimensions of globalisation

European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Vladimír Špidla will this represent the EU at a high level meeting of employment and labour ministers from the world's eight largest economies on 10-11 May, 2008. The special G8 meeting on employment in Niigata, Japan, will focus on labour market reform, addressing growing social disparities, the social dimension of globalisation and of environmental challenges like climate change. The conclusions of the meeting will feed into the main G8 Summit taking place in Hokkaido Toyako in July.