Roxana Minzatu
@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social
🇪🇺Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness - European Commission
👩🏻🦰 Inspire Girls & Women to Lead
👩🏻🦰 Inspire Girls & Women to Lead
🇪🇺🇲🇪Glad to meet today with Anđela Jakšić Stojanović, Montenegro’s Minister of Education. A priority for me is Montenegro’s full association to Erasmus+. This would strengthen its education system and boost exchanges with the EU and the region.
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🇪🇺🇲🇪Glad to meet today with Anđela Jakšić Stojanović, Montenegro’s Minister of Education. A priority for me is Montenegro’s full association to Erasmus+. This would strengthen its education system and boost exchanges with the EU and the region.
🇪🇺🇧🇬 A very good meeting at #EPSCO today with Borislav Gutsanov, Bulgaria’s Minister of Labour and Social Policy.
Our discussion covered Fair Labour Mobility Package, coordination of social security regulation, and Quality Jobs.
Our discussion covered Fair Labour Mobility Package, coordination of social security regulation, and Quality Jobs.
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🇪🇺🇧🇬 A very good meeting at #EPSCO today with Borislav Gutsanov, Bulgaria’s Minister of Labour and Social Policy.
Our discussion covered Fair Labour Mobility Package, coordination of social security regulation, and Quality Jobs.
Our discussion covered Fair Labour Mobility Package, coordination of social security regulation, and Quality Jobs.
Today, we launched the Skills Guarantee Pilot to support workers & businesses and tackle labour shortages.
The initiative will help workers to:
✅Transition into strategic industries
✅Secure new jobs
✅Develop additional skills through upskilling & reskilling
👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
The initiative will help workers to:
✅Transition into strategic industries
✅Secure new jobs
✅Develop additional skills through upskilling & reskilling
👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Today, we launched the Skills Guarantee Pilot to support workers & businesses and tackle labour shortages.
The initiative will help workers to:
✅Transition into strategic industries
✅Secure new jobs
✅Develop additional skills through upskilling & reskilling
👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
The initiative will help workers to:
✅Transition into strategic industries
✅Secure new jobs
✅Develop additional skills through upskilling & reskilling
👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Today, we adopted the 2026 #EuropeanSemester Autumn Package.
A recommendation on human capital calls on EU countries to:
💻 Reverse the negative trend in basic skills
🔬 Provide stronger science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programmes
& more
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
A recommendation on human capital calls on EU countries to:
💻 Reverse the negative trend in basic skills
🔬 Provide stronger science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programmes
& more
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Today, we adopted the 2026 #EuropeanSemester Autumn Package.
A recommendation on human capital calls on EU countries to:
💻 Reverse the negative trend in basic skills
🔬 Provide stronger science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programmes
& more
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
A recommendation on human capital calls on EU countries to:
💻 Reverse the negative trend in basic skills
🔬 Provide stronger science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programmes
& more
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Tonight - we shine orange for our common goal: standing together to oppose any kind of violence against women.
Our EU Directive on violence against women is now in place - we now need EU Member States to make it a reality.
Together, we can stop it 🧡
#OrangeTheWorld
Our EU Directive on violence against women is now in place - we now need EU Member States to make it a reality.
Together, we can stop it 🧡
#OrangeTheWorld
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Tonight - we shine orange for our common goal: standing together to oppose any kind of violence against women.
Our EU Directive on violence against women is now in place - we now need EU Member States to make it a reality.
Together, we can stop it 🧡
#OrangeTheWorld
Our EU Directive on violence against women is now in place - we now need EU Member States to make it a reality.
Together, we can stop it 🧡
#OrangeTheWorld
Happy to meet with Antonella Bassani - World Bank Vice President for Europe & Central Asia, on the margins of the High-Level Conference on the Future of Cohesion Policy.
We had a good discussion on how to support skills and attract and keep talent in Europe.
We had a good discussion on how to support skills and attract and keep talent in Europe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy to meet with Antonella Bassani - World Bank Vice President for Europe & Central Asia, on the margins of the High-Level Conference on the Future of Cohesion Policy.
We had a good discussion on how to support skills and attract and keep talent in Europe.
We had a good discussion on how to support skills and attract and keep talent in Europe.
🇪🇺🇮🇪Great to meet again with Dara Calleary - Minister for Social Protection, to discuss our shared priorities for the upcoming Presidency.
We will continue working together to deliver stronger social rights, fight poverty, fair labour mobility and better opportunities for people across Europe.
We will continue working together to deliver stronger social rights, fight poverty, fair labour mobility and better opportunities for people across Europe.
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🇪🇺🇮🇪Great to meet again with Dara Calleary - Minister for Social Protection, to discuss our shared priorities for the upcoming Presidency.
We will continue working together to deliver stronger social rights, fight poverty, fair labour mobility and better opportunities for people across Europe.
We will continue working together to deliver stronger social rights, fight poverty, fair labour mobility and better opportunities for people across Europe.
The first aims to create the right conditions for national armed forces to move swiftly across Europe in case of need and the second focuses on critical steps for our industry and our people. (2/2)
Read more about it here 👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Read more about it here 👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission moves towards ‘Military Schengen\' and transformation of defence industry
To make it easier for troops, equipment and military assets to move quickly and smoothly across Europe, the European Commission and the High Representative step up defence readiness, focusing on prepa...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The first aims to create the right conditions for national armed forces to move swiftly across Europe in case of need and the second focuses on critical steps for our industry and our people. (2/2)
Read more about it here 👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Read more about it here 👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
The Defence Package we adopted today tables two essential proposals for defence of Europe and its people: The Military Mobility proposal and the Defence Industry Transformation Roadmap. (1/2)
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Defence Package we adopted today tables two essential proposals for defence of Europe and its people: The Military Mobility proposal and the Defence Industry Transformation Roadmap. (1/2)
Glad to see Mircea Geoană today, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO.
Very good discussion on preparedness, resilience and future of work and how to grow leaders and ensure European leadership in these areas.
Very good discussion on preparedness, resilience and future of work and how to grow leaders and ensure European leadership in these areas.
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Glad to see Mircea Geoană today, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO.
Very good discussion on preparedness, resilience and future of work and how to grow leaders and ensure European leadership in these areas.
Very good discussion on preparedness, resilience and future of work and how to grow leaders and ensure European leadership in these areas.
It will offer a single EU platform where candidates from outside the EU can apply for vacancies and be matched with employers across all Member States,
and it will help address shortages in the European labour market.
Here is how EU Talent Pool will work (2/2)
and it will help address shortages in the European labour market.
Here is how EU Talent Pool will work (2/2)
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It will offer a single EU platform where candidates from outside the EU can apply for vacancies and be matched with employers across all Member States,
and it will help address shortages in the European labour market.
Here is how EU Talent Pool will work (2/2)
and it will help address shortages in the European labour market.
Here is how EU Talent Pool will work (2/2)
From now on, job seekers from outside the EU will find it easier to access job opportunities in Europe. I fully endorse the balanced compromise reached today between co-legislators in the trilogue on the EU Talent Pool.
The EU Talent Pool shows what we can achieve when we work together. (1/2)
The EU Talent Pool shows what we can achieve when we work together. (1/2)
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
From now on, job seekers from outside the EU will find it easier to access job opportunities in Europe. I fully endorse the balanced compromise reached today between co-legislators in the trilogue on the EU Talent Pool.
The EU Talent Pool shows what we can achieve when we work together. (1/2)
The EU Talent Pool shows what we can achieve when we work together. (1/2)
We keep pushing for:
✔️ Equal pay for equal work
✔️ Pay transparency
✔️ A fairer sharing of care responsibilities
✔️ Access to quality, affordable care services
✔️ Equal opportunities for all women and men
Equal pay for equal work is not a slogan — it is a legal right (2/2)
✔️ Equal pay for equal work
✔️ Pay transparency
✔️ A fairer sharing of care responsibilities
✔️ Access to quality, affordable care services
✔️ Equal opportunities for all women and men
Equal pay for equal work is not a slogan — it is a legal right (2/2)
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We keep pushing for:
✔️ Equal pay for equal work
✔️ Pay transparency
✔️ A fairer sharing of care responsibilities
✔️ Access to quality, affordable care services
✔️ Equal opportunities for all women and men
Equal pay for equal work is not a slogan — it is a legal right (2/2)
✔️ Equal pay for equal work
✔️ Pay transparency
✔️ A fairer sharing of care responsibilities
✔️ Access to quality, affordable care services
✔️ Equal opportunities for all women and men
Equal pay for equal work is not a slogan — it is a legal right (2/2)
‼️No woman should earn less just because she is a woman.
#EqualPayDay reminds us that while the gap is closing, progress is not fast enough (1/1)
#EqualPayDay reminds us that while the gap is closing, progress is not fast enough (1/1)
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
‼️No woman should earn less just because she is a woman.
#EqualPayDay reminds us that while the gap is closing, progress is not fast enough (1/1)
#EqualPayDay reminds us that while the gap is closing, progress is not fast enough (1/1)
Opportunities for learners and staff across education, training, youth and sport to gain a learning or professional experience abroad.
More information here 👇
erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-gu...
More information here 👇
erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-gu...
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Opportunities for learners and staff across education, training, youth and sport to gain a learning or professional experience abroad.
More information here 👇
erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-gu...
More information here 👇
erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-gu...
🇶🇦 One week since the World Social Summit in Doha.
👀 Watch back my interview with Zein Basravi from Al Jazeera👇
youtu.be/6IHy9kFu1Po?...
👀 Watch back my interview with Zein Basravi from Al Jazeera👇
youtu.be/6IHy9kFu1Po?...
Second World Summit for Social Development: Global leaders tackle multilateral challenges
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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November 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🇶🇦 One week since the World Social Summit in Doha.
👀 Watch back my interview with Zein Basravi from Al Jazeera👇
youtu.be/6IHy9kFu1Po?...
👀 Watch back my interview with Zein Basravi from Al Jazeera👇
youtu.be/6IHy9kFu1Po?...
In my meeting with 🇧🇪Minister Élisabeth Degryse, we exchanged on:
Erasmus as a political tool of the European project and the need for flexibility in the next MFF. I’m glad we share the same ambition with Minister Degryse — to make Erasmus a right for all.
Erasmus as a political tool of the European project and the need for flexibility in the next MFF. I’m glad we share the same ambition with Minister Degryse — to make Erasmus a right for all.
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In my meeting with 🇧🇪Minister Élisabeth Degryse, we exchanged on:
Erasmus as a political tool of the European project and the need for flexibility in the next MFF. I’m glad we share the same ambition with Minister Degryse — to make Erasmus a right for all.
Erasmus as a political tool of the European project and the need for flexibility in the next MFF. I’m glad we share the same ambition with Minister Degryse — to make Erasmus a right for all.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Positive meeting with António Guterres - UN Secretary-General, at the World Social Summit.
In these challenging times, we must remain united in defending our shared values, promote social justice and strengthen our strategic cooperation for effective multilateralism.
In these challenging times, we must remain united in defending our shared values, promote social justice and strengthen our strategic cooperation for effective multilateralism.
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Positive meeting with António Guterres - UN Secretary-General, at the World Social Summit.
In these challenging times, we must remain united in defending our shared values, promote social justice and strengthen our strategic cooperation for effective multilateralism.
In these challenging times, we must remain united in defending our shared values, promote social justice and strengthen our strategic cooperation for effective multilateralism.
🇪🇺🇶🇦In Doha today, I underlined the EU leadership in the fight against hunger and poverty.
Our Union provides 42% of development assistance and remains committed to eradicating poverty — including through the European Child Guarantee and the upcoming Anti-Poverty Strategy.
#Doha2025
Our Union provides 42% of development assistance and remains committed to eradicating poverty — including through the European Child Guarantee and the upcoming Anti-Poverty Strategy.
#Doha2025
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🇪🇺🇶🇦In Doha today, I underlined the EU leadership in the fight against hunger and poverty.
Our Union provides 42% of development assistance and remains committed to eradicating poverty — including through the European Child Guarantee and the upcoming Anti-Poverty Strategy.
#Doha2025
Our Union provides 42% of development assistance and remains committed to eradicating poverty — including through the European Child Guarantee and the upcoming Anti-Poverty Strategy.
#Doha2025
Very glad to meet with Kaia Vask and Jaan-Hendrik Toomel, from the Confederation of Estonian Trade Unions, to discuss the state of social dialogue as well as concerns on labour legislation, occupational health and safety matters, Minimum Wage Directive and also protection of young generation.
October 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Very glad to meet with Kaia Vask and Jaan-Hendrik Toomel, from the Confederation of Estonian Trade Unions, to discuss the state of social dialogue as well as concerns on labour legislation, occupational health and safety matters, Minimum Wage Directive and also protection of young generation.
European competitiveness begins with its people. 🇪🇪 has one of the highest employment rates in the EU — around 80%.
I had a pragmatic meeting with Hando Sutter, President of the Estonian Employers Confederation to discuss how to have balanced and calibrated approach for the goals of Social Europe.
I had a pragmatic meeting with Hando Sutter, President of the Estonian Employers Confederation to discuss how to have balanced and calibrated approach for the goals of Social Europe.
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
European competitiveness begins with its people. 🇪🇪 has one of the highest employment rates in the EU — around 80%.
I had a pragmatic meeting with Hando Sutter, President of the Estonian Employers Confederation to discuss how to have balanced and calibrated approach for the goals of Social Europe.
I had a pragmatic meeting with Hando Sutter, President of the Estonian Employers Confederation to discuss how to have balanced and calibrated approach for the goals of Social Europe.
🇪🇺🇪🇪Thrilled to meet Jürgen Ligi, Estonia’s Minister of Finance to discuss our priorities for next MFF - including strong social dimension.
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🇪🇺🇪🇪Thrilled to meet Jürgen Ligi, Estonia’s Minister of Finance to discuss our priorities for next MFF - including strong social dimension.
🇪🇺🇪🇪For the next two days, I’ll be in Estonia for a country visit. The first meeting was with Minister of Economic Affairs - Erkki Keldo.
We discussed calibrated and balanced approach to European social model and competitiveness and how to get everyone on board.
We discussed calibrated and balanced approach to European social model and competitiveness and how to get everyone on board.
October 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🇪🇺🇪🇪For the next two days, I’ll be in Estonia for a country visit. The first meeting was with Minister of Economic Affairs - Erkki Keldo.
We discussed calibrated and balanced approach to European social model and competitiveness and how to get everyone on board.
We discussed calibrated and balanced approach to European social model and competitiveness and how to get everyone on board.