Social Issues
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Italy: ‘A plan for youth unemployment’
20 May 2013671PresseuropLa Repubblica -
European Union: ‘‘New Deal’ against unemployment’
14 May 2013848PresseuropCinco Días -
Society: Why have the Spanish people not revolted?
6 May 201393871 Infolibre Madrid -
Portugal: ‘Government increases the retirement age’
2 May 20131477PresseuropDiário económico -
Unemployment: ‘22.4% of young Belgians are without a job’
2 May 20131241PresseuropDe Morgen -
Spain: Six million reasons for another policy
26 April 2013611226 El Periódico de Catalunya Barcelona -
Spain: ‘Now something must be done’
26 April 2013847PresseuropCinco Días -
France: ‘France has never had so many unemployed’
26 April 20138812PresseuropLe Figaro -
Netherlands: ‘Unemployment rising faster than expected’
19 April 201312324PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Germany: Heading for ‘à la carte’ pensions?
18 April 20136711PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Spain: ‘39,000 families lost their mortgaged homes in 2012’
12 April 20131273PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Spain: ‘Andalusia seizes housing belonging to banks to curb evictions’
10 April 201310963PresseuropEl País -
Unemployment: ‘What is destroying Europe’
3 April 2013280226PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
France: ‘Government powerless to stop rising unemployment’
27 March 2013715PresseuropLe Figaro -
Spain: ‘Yes, now STOP EVICTIONS’
15 March 201384PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Germany: Where is the legacy of Agenda 2010?
6 March 20131625PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Spain: ‘Maximum tension on first day of Iberia strike’
19 February 2013225PresseuropCinco Días -
Germany: Amazon ‘recruits neo-Nazis’ to monitor foreign seasonal workers
18 February 20131346PresseuropWelt am Sonntag, Süddeutsche Zeitung -
Belgium: ‘Steel workers round trip from Liege to Strasbourg’
7 February 2013271PresseuropDe Morgen -
Germany: ‘Germany? No thanks!’
5 February 2013519PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
News in brief: ‘European poverty explosion worries Red Cross’
31 January 20131791PresseuropLe Temps -
Poland: ‘Polish poor children’
30 January 2013512PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Spain: ‘Unsustainable’
25 January 2013552PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Sweden: ‘Sweden proves alluring’
23 January 2013538PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet -
Employment: The ‘lost generation’ that never was
21 January 201324628 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
France : 'Renault to axe 7,500 jobs. French car industry debacle.'
16 January 2013393PresseuropAujourd'hui en France - Le Parisien -
Economy: Saint Precarious – new icon of Europe
15 January 201385817 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Crisis: No common front in the fight against joblessness
15 January 201315649 Alternatives économiques Paris -
Poland: 'Sejm will not pass civil partnership bills'
14 January 2013312PresseuropPolska The Times -
Italy: No relief in sight for the ‘slaves’ of Rosarno
10 January 201337735 La Stampa Turin -
Czech Republic-Germany: Two-way traffic on Czech-German border
6 December 2012303PresseuropHospodářské Noviny, Mladá Fronta DNES -
European Union: Poverty on the rise
4 December 20121907PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Youth: Let’s create an employment Erasmus scheme!
29 November 201287065 Les Echos Paris -
Unemployment: The Neets, a generation in need
28 November 201291154 Trouw Amsterdam -
Czech Republic : An end to “forced labour”
28 November 20125001PresseuropLidové noviny -
Social Issues: Austerity sends Europeans marching in the streets
15 November 2012249124PresseuropEl País, La Repubblica, Público & 2 others -
European Union: Belgium’s Genk factory kicks off week of social unrest
12 November 2012572PresseuropLa Libre Belgique -
Spain: Evictions of indebted property-owners called into question
6 November 20124913PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Belgium: Cheap labour feeding a city
4 October 201217013 De Standaard Brussels -
Jobs: Call for a European youth rescue plan
16 August 201212429PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Germany: Ten years on, the labour market’s “miracle reform” still splits the country
16 August 20126537PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Employment: No economy for young people
4 July 2012108073 The Guardian London -
European Union: The embarrassing problem of unemployment
3 July 2012658PresseuropDer Standard, La Vanguardia -
Spain: Black future for nation’s miners
22 June 201210128 El País Madrid -
European Commission: Target: 17 million jobs
16 April 201213211PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Employment: 25 million jobless and the German El Dorado.
3 April 20121491PresseuropDie Welt -
Employment: The crisis, golden opportunity for employers
23 March 2012208853 Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
Spain: A thousand euros – a dream salary
13 March 20125206 El País Madrid -
Gender equality: EU wants to break “glass ceiling”
6 March 2012733PresseuropRzeczpospolita, Süddeutsche Zeitung -
Romania: Forgotten miners in the Valley of Tears
13 January 201210716 Die Tageszeitung Berlin
Five years of crisis, 6 million unemployed and thousands driven from their homes: Despite the heavy social toll, Spaniards suffer their fate without rebelling against the government or against the EU because they fear losing what little they have left, argues a sociologist. 
With the number of unemployed over six million, the economic and social disaster has continued to worsen despite the EU-prescribed shock therapy applied by the Government of Mariano Rajoy. Just how bad do things have to get before there is a change in policy? wonders El Periódico. 
With every serious crisis we feel sorry for young people who cannot find work, calling them a “lost generation”. Well, there have been many such generations in history and they always succeeded in the end, writes DGP. 
Austerity and free market regulations have created a band of loyal followers: The Precarious. And they are threatening the jewel European civilization, social security, argues Belgian writer Geert Van Istandael. 
The latest figures are grim: unemployment has soared to record levels in the eurozone, with 11.8 per cent of the workforce unemployed. So far, however, European countries have been unable to harmonise their social policies in an effort to get out of the crisis. 
At the end of 2009, Africans working in the orchards of Calabria rebelled against the inhuman living and working conditions, reopening the debate in Italy on seasonal work. Three years on, the public initiatives have failed and the migrants are still being exploited. 
The financial crisis has left behind 14 million young Europeans with neither employment nor training, yet nobody is mentioning them in the talks over the EU budget. What if a little money was spent on bringing them into the world of work through the Union, wonders a French consultant. 
Fourteen million European young people are neither working nor in school. Their number is growing because of the economic crisis, with disparities according to the countries. Sociologists worry of the social and health consequences of this phenomenon. 
Hundreds of thousands of people took part in protests against austerity policies organised in several European countries by the European Trade union Confederation. For the European press, this austerity fatigue should prompt a rethink on the drive to balance public accounts. 
The slaughterhouses of Anderlecht often use an Eastern European workforce - mainly Romanian - that is underpaid and without a contract. A problem that is linked to their vulnerability and economic imbalances between member states, writes De Standaard. 
Today’s graduate can expect to be poorer than his or her parents, a phenomenon unique to the post 1945 society. And the West’s broken economic model cannot tap into this lost generation’s mastery of new technologies. 
On strike since late May, Spanish miners have begun a march on Madrid in order to safeguard state subsides for the nation's coal mines. But in the midst of the eurozone crisis, their cause to save an old and struggling industry seems all but lost. 
Pressed hard by the recession and national debts, European governments are rewriting the labour law, whether watering down job protection or cutting wages. And employers are smiling. 
When “milleurista” was coined in 2005 - a term denoting someone living on €1000 per month - it highlighted the plight of young workers with insecure, low-paid jobs. Today, with one out of two young people on the dole, becoming a “milleurista” has become something to aspire to. 
In Ceausescu's times thousands of Romanians, drawn by high wages, flocked to the coalfields of the Jiu Valley. Today many of the mines in the valley are closed and the miners have been left to fend for themselves. Many are sliding into criminality.
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