Policy Action to Prevent Unemployment in EU and Romania

The present paper presents a comparative situation on the Active Labour Market. Policies in the country members of the EU with a specific accent on the Romanian labour market. We discuss about the public employment services, training schemes, employment subsidies adopted by the countries in the view to help the unemployed find work. We conclude that not all the countries have the same commitment in the efforts to cut the unemployment; even they face a very difficult economic crisis.