(Brussels) The survey by “Employment and Social Developments in Europe” (ESDE 2015) – published by European Commission today – points out “potentialities of freelance workers and business activities for creating jobs”. However, “a few groups such as youth, elderly people, women and ethnic minorities may find higher obstacles in starting their own business”. Moreover, the survey saus that “most of people don’t think they have the necessary skills or knowledge to start a business”. Hence the need for specific policies by the governments of Member States, supported by the EU, too. “Those policies may include easier access to loans and tax incentives, business education and access to children or elderly people assistance”.Moreover, the survey points out the need of a higher variety of work agreements, granting “flexible work conditions”, in order “to increase participation in the work market”; however, the risk of work market “segmentation” has to be avoided, together with the risk of imposing unfavourable work conditions to employees. The survey points out the need “to invest in people” through a series of operative proposals such as training and mobility. “Just 4% of EU citizens aged from 15 to 64 lives in a Member State different from the country they were born in; however EU mobile workers usually have better work perspectives, on the whole, with respect to local population”.