European employment strategy and the evaluation of the employment markets of the candidate countries

The oil shock which occured in seventees, had affected full employmentnegatively and after eightees and during ninetees it reached the highestunemployment rates. After this period, for increasing the employment andchallenging with the unemployment, it was realised that something common had tobe done as EU. European Employment Strategy which was established forchallenging unemployment has a structure which based on active employmentpolicies, dynmics and attendance. This strategy aims introducing employmentthrough to EU according to the determined targets and priority contributing theimprovement of EU employment policy.Candidate countries to EU try to adopt employment policies to their systemsacccording to the established policies by EU. These policies are not only for the EUcountries, but also for the countries in the process to joint to EU. In this study, thelabour markets of the candidate countries which are-Bulgaria, Romania, Croaitaand Turkey- are tried to be mentioned according to European Employment Strategy.