The FINANCIAL -- "High unemployment is the big elephant in the room: this job crisis is the human face of the crisis", highlighted OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria while addressing PACE on Wednesday.

The former Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs underlined many interconnections between areas of expertise of both OECD and Council of Europe, such as youth unemployment, gender, and tax havens.

In 2012, The Paris-based organisation (marking its 50 anniversary this year), will deliver a Skills Strategy, in order to ensure a shift from lifetime employment to lifetime employability. "Inequality was indeed one of the contributing factors to the crisis -added Gurria - we must go structural and social to tackle the employment challenge".

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