The Federal Chamber of Labour (AK) is positively disposed in principle to the idea of integrating flexicurity into the Lisbon strategy, thereby encouraging the Member States to incorporate flexicurity approaches into the national action programmes on growth and employment that they are rewording.<br /><br />However, flexicurity has been hitherto discussed as a rule in terms of a flexible labour market as a matter of priority – the legitimate interests of workers in self-determined flexibility and plugging the gaps in security are subordinate to this. This understanding of flexicurity crucially falls too short and is not shared by the AK.