Denmark, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden have already met or even exceeded their 2020 national targets on boosting university education, defined three years ago at EU level to enhance the bloc’s labour force and ability to compete against global economic rivals. The figures were released by Eurostat on Thursday (11 April) as part of its monitoring of the five headline targets defined in the ‘Europe 2020’ strategy, adopted in 2010 by the EU’s 27 heads of states and governments (see background).
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