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Member states are set to endorse a joint framework for improving the working conditions of two million researchers in Europe, but stakeholders are calling for changes to the draft document. The draft recommendations, currently debated in the EU Council, call for longer-term employment contracts and training for skills useful outside academia , whilst endorsing a plan to track labour conditions for researchers across the continent.