Speaking at the workshop, Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, affirmed that the workshop provided an overview of the current situation of labour cooperation between Vietnam and European countries.

Thereby, Vietnam can grasp the opportunities and challenges for each market to find solutions to improve cooperation efficiency, positioning the field of labour cooperation in the overall bilateral cooperation relationship between Vietnam and each European partner.

At the workshop, Deputy Minister of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Ba Hoan summarized that dispatching Vietnamese workers to work abroad is a major policy of the Vietnamese Government to develop human resources, solve employment, create income and improve skills for workers and strengthen international cooperation between Vietnam and countries around the world.

In recent years, annually, Vietnam has sent about 150,000 workers to work abroad and currently, there are about 700,000 Vietnamese workers working in 40 countries and territories, with more than 30 different occupational groups.

"Europe has always been considered a key market, with a need to receive a large number of foreign workers, including Vietnamese workers. Vietnamese workers have initially created prestige and a brand in the international labour market," emphasized Deputy Minister Nguyen Ba Hoan.

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Vietnam and countries in the European Union have a friendly relationship and active, increasingly deep, effective, and comprehensive cooperation, including in the field of labour cooperation. This cooperation brings great benefits to each country.

Countries in the European Union need to supplement human resources, making up for the shortage of labour force due to population aging. Vietnam is a country with a young population, in need of job creation, vocational skills training, and industrial working style.

Attending the workshop, the embassies of European countries in Hanoi confirmed that this market has a great demand for receiving skilled Vietnamese workers, and is ready to support human resource training to ensure the quality of the supply, have a stable salary policy, and many favorable labour policies.

At the workshop, the leaders of the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs agreed on the viewpoint of coordinating well to implement the work of dispatching labour to work abroad policy in the coming time, maintaining and developing sustainable cooperation, ensuring the rights of workers.