Technological innovation, the knowledge society, broadband and developments in transport and communications are major factors for the economic growth of European undertakings and for achieving the objectives of the Lisbon Agenda by 2010, but they also imply changes which often have an adverse effect on workers, whose jobs are lost as a result of business restructuring and even relocation to countries that are more attractive in terms of labour costs or the tax and social advantages offered.
Technological innovation, the knowledge society, broadband and developments in transport and communications are major factors for the economic growth of European undertakings and for achieving the objectives of the Lisbon Agenda by 2010, but they also imply changes which often have an adverse effect on workers, whose jobs are lost as a result of business restructuring and even relocation to countries that are more attractive in terms of labour costs or the tax and social advantages offered.