The new report on citizens' attitudes and behaviour towards multilingualism, foreign language learning and translation demonstrates that Europeans have very positive attitudes towards multilingualism.
http://ec.europa.eu/languages/news/20120621-eurobarometer386_en.htm

What the latest EU surveys tells us about multilingualism in Europe (part II) by Teresa Tinsley:
http://www.alcantaracoms.com/home/what-the-latest-eu-surveys-tells-us-about-multilingualism-in-europe-part-ii

First European Survey on Language Competences: http://ec.europa.eu/languages/news/20120621-eslc_en.htm

Please find below interesting links from the EU Commission working group "Languages for Jobs":

The report of the thematic working group Languages for Jobs September 2011:

http://ec.europa.eu/languages/news/wanted-on-the-labour-market_en.htm

The report of the Business Forum for Multilingualism from 2008, entitled "Companies work better with languages". It is available in all official languages except Irish in our catalogue of publications: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/publ/multiling_en.html.

Material about the University-business dialogue and cooperation can be downloaded from the Education and Training web site: http://ec.europa.eu/education/higher-education/doc1261_en.htm

The brand new Council conclusions on New Skills for New Jobs:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/news/news4028_en.htm

PIMLICO Study: "Promoting, Implementing, Mapping Languages and Intercultural Communication Strategies in Organisations and Companies" 2010  Languages mean Business campaign

http://ec.europa.eu/languages/languages-mean-business

IES Study: "Internationalisation of European SMEs" 2010
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/market-access/internationalisation/index_en.htm#h2-1

European Commission LANGUAGES - All News
http://ec.europa.eu/languages/news/index2011_en.htm

The European Framework of Key Competences:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/school-education/doc830_en.htm

Vocational Education and Training:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-policy/doc60_en.htm

Languages for SMEs - WIKI discussion by the EU Commission: Business "sans frontières"! http://projects.tipik.eu/sme-wiki/

EUROPASS - create your own language passport online: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/documents/language-passport

A new Eurobarometer has been published that reports on the survey ''Employers' perception of graduate employability''. The findings indicate which skills and competences are valued most by employers. One of the key findings was that, according to European employers, foreign language skills will be the most important and requested skill in the future.  http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/news/news4738_en.htm

Last December new priorities have been set for the Copenhagen Process and a new plan for VET was adopted. The Bruges communiqué highlights the increasing importance of foreign language skills for getting and keeping a job, for international mobility and for cross-border cooperation. http://ec.europa.eu/education/vocational-education/doc1143_en.htm