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The European Council is deeply concerned about the present unemployment situation and the grave dangers inherent in a development where an increasing number of people in the Community are becoming permanently detached from the labour market...The European Council agreed that macro-economic policy should be supplemented by structural measures in each Member State adapted to their individual characteristics in order to achieve a significant reduction of the unacceptably high level of unemployment in particular among young people, those unemployed for a long time and the most socially excluded (European Council in Copenhagen, Conclusions of the Presidency, 21-22 June 1993). The objectives of full employment, job quality, labour productivity and social cohesion must be reflected in clear and measurable priorities: making work a real option for everyone, attracting more people into the labour market, improving adaptability, investing in human capital, modernising social protection, promoting equal opportunities inter alia between men and women, and fostering social inclusion (European Council in Brussels, Conclusions of the Presidency, 22-23 March 2005). Some 92 million people were inactive and 19 million unemployed in the EU in 2004. The report found that of the 92 million inactive people, at least 14% (or 13 million people) were willing and able to work (Employment in Europe 2005, press release). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]