BERLIN (Reuters) - The chairman of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday the euro zone must "jointly reform" and added that high taxes on labour are an obstacle to growth.
Speaking in Berlin, Dijsselbloem said that national tax cuts should be coordinated across Europe.
"The tax wedge on labour in the euro zone is high, probably too high," he said. "In almost all euro zone countries we have a tax wedge that is higher than the OECD average."
Dijsselbloem added: "The key issue at the moment is simply the return of jobs. The real thing in life that people still feel, such as in Portugal, is massive unemployment. So people ask, will this be jobless growth?"
(Reporting Annika Breidthardt; Writing by Erik Kirschbaum; Editing by Stephen Brown)