Labour market regulation
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Working hours: Cometh the hour, cometh the (same) man
28 August 2012PresseuropBlog -
Netherlands: I’m 15, I’ll start a business
17 January 2012395 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Employment: Does immigration lengthen dole queues?
10 January 2012283PresseuropPresseurop -
Lithuania: Nurses go Norway
20 December 20111061 Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius -
Iceland: Reykjavik to allow Romanian workers
10 November 2011583PresseuropTimpul -
Employment: The dream of a flexible labour market
19 October 201112916 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Economic crisis: Youthful members of the full-time precariat
15 September 20119664 Polityka Warsaw -
United Kingdom: Cameron quizzes EU work directive
6 September 2011PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Latin America: The Spanish brain-drain
24 June 20112222 El País Madrid -
Poland: Dark side of the economic miracle
7 June 20111983 The Guardian London -
Schengen: Back to the nation oasis
13 May 20112255 Die Presse Vienna -
Romania : Hounding the black economy
9 May 2011PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Labour market: Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111571 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Spain: Amnesty for moonlighting
26 April 2011PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Employment: Everyone for Germany!
5 April 2011944 Polityka Warsaw -
Portugal: Interns to be paid even less
1 March 2011Presseuropi -
Employment: Come back to Germany, Pepe
24 January 20111182 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Editorial: Learning from Tunisia
21 January 20111611Presseurop -
Spain: Record unemployment - glimmer of hope
5 January 2011PresseuropABC -
Belgium - Bulgaria: Sofia and Brussels in Roma mix-up
6 December 201011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Emigration: Portugal’s lost generation
25 November 2010431 Público Lisbon -
Immigration: The next Polish brain drain
27 September 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Germany: Siemens - jobs for life?
23 September 2010PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Czech Republic: Czech working-hours longest in Europe
7 September 20101PresseuropLidové noviny -
SINOPHOBIA: Love China, hate China
3 September 2010PresseuropBlog -
Czech Republic: Crackdown on foreign workers
19 August 2010PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Spain: Job stimulating reform?
23 June 2010PresseuropABC -
Italy: Fiat workers negotiate new model
23 June 2010PresseuropL’Unità -
Spain: Zapatero to rejig labour market
3 June 2010PresseuropPúblico -
Portugal: A generation in danger
20 January 2010381 Público Lisbon -
Economy: Why Europe ain't all bad
12 January 2010672 The New York Times New York -
Economy: Better days by 2020 - honest
8 January 20102 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Sociology: The importance of being adult
31 October 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Spain: Boom days for black economy
6 October 2009PresseuropPúblico -
United Kingdom : Soaraway Sun swings back to Tories
30 September 2009PresseuropThe Sun -
Employment: The work-life imbalance
29 September 2009221 Le Monde Paris -
German elections: Free-market liberals take European helm
29 September 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Employment: Pull a holiday sickie, your boss pays
15 September 2009PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Germany: How long is the Opel lifeline?
11 September 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Italy: Foreigners bring more jobs
19 August 2009PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
REDUNDANCIES: France's explosive industrial disputes
17 July 2009PresseuropLibération -
Welfare state: Scandinavia's lovely and unaffordable model
6 July 2009421 Le Soir Brussels -
Employment: Spain warms to German model
19 June 2009El País Madrid -
Social issues: Minimum wage not quite order of the day
4 June 2009PresseuropL'Express -
European Elections: Political bad science
3 June 2009PresseuropThe Guardian
Whether it’s making iPhone apps or delivering organic food on a bicycle, junior entrepreneurs are creating their own lucrative business in the Netherlands, with or without assistance from their school. 
Faced with the economic crisis, Lithuanian medical staff are increasingly leaving to work in Norway, where salaries are much higher. Although they do not become exiles, they do have to contend with a permanent schedule of return journeys between Oslo and Vilnius. 
In spite of the euro crisis, there are no signs whatsoever of an exodus of Greek, Spanish or Portuguese migrants. Only a few Southern Europeans are daring to move to healthier euro countries in an attempt to escape unemployment and low wages. Extracts. 
The crisis has accelerated the emergence of a new social class in Europe. Dubbed "the precariat" by sociologists, it is made up of young people with no prospect of a decent job or a reasonable standard of living. 
Faced with record unemployment and poor job prospects, a generation of young Spaniards is decamping to the economic boomtowns of Latin America
It might be hailed as one of Europe’s economic success stories, but Poland’s health and social services are crumbling, and its well-qualified youth are increasingly preferring exile over low-paid, futureless unemployment back home. 
Denmark, which has caused a splash with its solo reinstatement of border controls, is leading the dismantling of the EU and the retreat to the nation state. Border controls back up, no foreign students, import restrictions and transit agreements. Sound good? 
On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. 
The 1st May will mark an end to quotas to limit the access of workers from former communist countries to the German labour market. While the German population fears a wave of cheap labour from Poland, Polityka argues that the German economy stands to benefit. 
In one corner - Germany, in search of skilled workers to feed its recovery. In the other, a Spain in crisis, where young graduates have no future. As in the sixties, a new flow of economic migrants might be making their way north. 
Portugal has never had so many graduates, but at the same time, it has never been so hard for young people to find work. Faced with a choice between dead-end jobs and a ticket to another life, they are leaving in droves — a lost generation in the making. 
In the United Kingdom, they call them "the lost generation" – 16 to 25-year-olds entering the working world against a backdrop of economic crisis and recession, who experience major difficulties finding and keeping jobs, even when they are well qualified. Público warns that the phenomenon is also taking hold in Portugal.
At a time when critics of Barack Obama's health-care reforms accuse the US President of attempting to impose social democracy in Washington, economist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman points out that European-style social democracy, which is often vilified by American conservatives, actually works. 
To be the world’s leading economic powerhouse by 2010: the Lisbon strategy objective is clearly unattainable. So the 27 have decided to give themselves another ten years to develop a new growth model. But the setting is even less auspicious than it was last time around. 
The transition to adulthood varies from one country to another. For sociologist Cécile Van de Velde, the author of a new study on the subject, the Scandinavian model is the best suited to the needs of young people. Interview with cafebabel.com: 
24 employees of France Télécom have committed suicide over the last 18 months. The deaths have been linked to the lack of job security, isolation within the company and increasing demands for employee flexibility. In French daily Le Monde two sociologists examine the story in the wider context of a society, where the meaning of work is undergoing significant change. 
European member states are seeking solutions to soften the impact of the prolonged economic crisis. Sweden, whose much-admired social model is the envy of many countries, has the return to prosperity a priority for its presidency of the Union. But Le Soir reports that Sweden's example may not be easy to follow. 
Since the beginning of the global economic slowdown, unemployment in Spain has shot up to 17%. The Spanish government could do well to look to Germany, argues El País, where the jobless total is less dramatic.