The designated EU Commissioner Roxana Mînzatu wants to strengthen vocational (further) education and training and draw up an action plan for basic skills. The action plan is intended to counteract the „worrying decline in performance“ in the areas of reading and writing, mathematics and science, as well as insufficient digital skills. This is according to the written answers from Romanian MEPs to questions from the European Parliament. These have now been published ahead of Mînzatu’s hearing before the Parliament scheduled for Nov. 12.