At the end of 2012, Bertelsmann Stiftung and the European Policy Centre presented the findings of their recent work in the report, “Creating Second Career Labour Markets – Towards more Employment Opportunities for Older Workers.”  The introduction of the report says that “in essence, existing challenges on labour markets have been exacerbated by new problems with enormously restricted financial leeway to address these issues.”  The report goes on to say that “the objective is to create employment, not to favour employment of one or another category of people,” and to “agree on a more flexible working contract that allows flexible working conditions.”