Unemployment
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Social crisis
Spain losing the roof over its head
2 December 20119El Mundo Madrid -
31 October 20112PresseuropEl País
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Employment
The dream of a flexible labour market
19 October 201116De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Immigration
Europeans up sticks
14 October 20113Adevărul Bucharest -
10 August 20111PresseuropLa Razón
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27 June 2011PresseuropPolitiken
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Latin America
The Spanish brain-drain
24 June 20112El País Madrid -
Unemployment
Italy's youth population in total slump
18 May 20113PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
16 May 2011PresseuropEl País
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Greece
Back home with mum
3 May 2011De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Spain
Amnesty for moonlighting
26 April 2011PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
14 February 20112Público Lisbon
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2 February 2011PresseuropDnevnik
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Spain
The Portuguese exodus
31 January 2011PresseuropJornal de Notícias -
Editorial
Learning from Tunisia
21 January 20111Presseurop -
5 January 2011PresseuropABC
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16 December 2010PresseuropLe Monde
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7 October 20101Presseuropi
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Unemployment
Why can't the EU create jobs?
22 September 2010The Independent London -
Unemployment
Joblessness soars across the union
16 September 2010PresseuropThe Independent -
Job market
To be young… and doomed
17 August 2010PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Emigration
120,000 to leave austerity Ireland
14 July 2010PresseuropThe Irish Times -
1 July 2010PresseuropThe Irish Times
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United Kingdom
Austerity Osborne sits on jobless forecast
30 June 2010PresseuropThe Guardian -
3 June 2010PresseuropPúblico
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European Union
EU27 unemployment at record 9.6%
3 May 2010PresseuropEUobserver.com -
29 March 2010Respekt Prague
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Economic crisis
Drop the European way of life
25 February 20106Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
5 February 20104Presseurop
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Auto Industry
Fit for the scrapheap?
22 January 20101Presseurop -
Portugal
A generation in danger
20 January 20101Público Lisbon -
Ireland
Land of spivs and speculators
18 January 20102New Statesman London -
Netherlands
Rotterdam believes in total employment
12 January 2010PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Economy
Better days by 2020 – honest
8 January 20102Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
European Union
Madrid faces challenges in Brussels
4 January 2010Presseurop -
Poland – Slovakia
The new EU economic tandem?
4 January 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
France
Suburbs on the brink, again
1 December 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
Economic crisis
Spaniards cheerfully ignore poverty
28 October 2009PresseuropABC -
6 October 2009PresseuropPúblico
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Estonia
A man's place is now in the home
22 September 2009Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
25 August 2009PresseuropLibération
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20 July 2009PresseuropTa Nea
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REDUNDANCIES
France's explosive industrial disputes
17 July 2009PresseuropLibération -
16 July 20092România libera Bucharest
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Employment
Spain warms to German model
19 June 2009El País Madrid
Victims of unemployment, the housing bubble and bank loans too easily offered, thousands of families have been forced to abandon their homes. A symptom of the crisis that has rocked Spain, but also the crisis of a system in need of reform. 
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 is forcing more and more Europeans to emigrate. For young people in Mediterranean countries, as well as for those in Eastern Europe, it's the north of the continent where salvation lies. 
Faced with record unemployment and poor job prospects, a generation of young Spaniards is decamping to the economic boomtowns of Latin America
Confronted by unemployment and the economic crisis, young Greeks are being forced to give up their nascent independence and return home to live with their parents, where they benefit from the same ethos of familial support whose excesses have contributed much to the crisis. 
So that one section of the population can benefit from long-standing social entitlements, another — that is to say the young people who are our children — is deprived of all its rights. 
European countries excel in productivity but can't seem to stimulate employment. This is due to delocalisations and overtly strict labour laws, explains the Independent. 
A permanent job, a rock-solid employment contract and fixed hours are gradually becoming relics of the past. It’s bound to be a rougher ride from here on in. That will open wide the realm of possibilities – but also a whole Pandora’s box of uncertainties, heralds the Czech weekly Respekt. 
The belief that we can recover from the economic crisis without compromising our "European Way of Life" is quite simply a pipe dream argues, Polish columnist Marek Magierowski. 
In the wake of Barack Obama’s decision to give the EU summit miss, José Luis Zapetero’s EU presidency is languishing. If only his problems were confined to the European stage. With the Spanish economy on the rocks, the national press, many with knives out, remarks that the president is going through an unprecedented crisis. 
The impending shutdown of the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium, is a sign of the times in the ailing European auto sector. The press gazes beyond the current recession to mull the future of one of the continent’s core industries.
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.
Worst-afflicted of EU states by the global current crisis, Ireland of the Celtic Tiger years seems an all too distant memory. Rob Brown warns that Dublin’s slash and burn budgets that reduce public spending to keep international finance sweet could lead not just to economic, but also social, meltdown. 
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. 
Spain is steering the ship of the Union for a six-month stint, with its sights set on two goals: finding a remedy for the recession and putting the Lisbon Treaty into effect. But the dailies El País and EL Mundo are divided over the weakened Spanish government’s odds of success in Brussels. 
Being a house husband is not always great fun for an Estonian. The economic crisis, which has mainly hit male occupations, is redefining roles within the family. Perhaps the time has come to strike a new balance, posits the Estonian daily Eesti Päevaleht. 
In 2008, nearly one out of two Romanians obtained social benefit. With comfortable pensions for some and long maternity leave for others, the unemployed remain sidelined, reports România Libera, while the better off reap full advantage of a generous system. 
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.