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Ministry of Social Security and Labour says that concrete measures should ensure the development of skills that labour market demands. Also single general employment policy should be drafted.

To encourage business certain measures have been proposed: to decrease labour taxation, to transfer labour tax burden to the taxes that are less harmful to economic growth and job creation, also to decrease the general regulatory burden, to increase the flexibility of industrial relations, to provide new development programmes for export, industry, services and tourism sectors.

Ministry of Social Security and Labour expects that the concrete measures carried out until 2020 will ensure the improvement of the business environment index from the current 27 to 15 and also create about 150,000 new vacancies.