<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://www.presseurop.eu/sites/all/themes/pefront/style-rss.css" ?><rss version="2.0">
            <channel><title>Presseurop | <![CDATA[Social Issues]]></title>
                <link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en</link>
                <description>The best of the European press translated into 10 languages</description>
                <language>en</language><item><title>Romania | Forgotten miners in the Valley of Tears (Die Tageszeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1392021-forgotten-miners-valley-tears</link><description><![CDATA[In Ceausescu&#039;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. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Petrila-Jiu-Valley.jpg" length="26668" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:59:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Employment | A two-speed Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1359741-two-speed-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Leading with the front-page headline &ldquo;Europe split in two by unemployment,&rdquo; La Tribune  reports  on the growing gap between Southern and Northern Europe: [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/120105tribune.jpg" length="7616" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:48:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lithuania | Nurses go Norway (Lietuvos Rytas, Vilnius)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1311511-nurses-go-norway</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Norway-nurses.jpg" length="61710" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:44:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iceland | Reykjavik to allow Romanian workers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1155471-reykjavik-allow-romanian-workers</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Iceland has decided to open up its labour market fully to Romanian [and Bulgarian] citizens from 1st January 2012&quot;, reports Timpul. The Moldovan daily is [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:50:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Employment | The dream of a flexible labour market (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1072421-dream-flexible-labour-market</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/job-market.jpg" length="68686" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:36:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Occupy Protests | Educated, poor and in revolt</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1065541-educated-poor-and-revolt</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Occupy Frankfurt&quot;.&nbsp; Borrowing the name from the Wall Street protesters, the left-leaning German daily Frankfurter Rundschau, is pleased with the success of the October 15 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Frankfurter-Rundschau-17102-100.jpg" length="38996" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:02:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EUROPEAN OF THE WEEK | Guido Strack - the downfall of a whistleblower (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1028391-guido-strack-downfall-whistleblower</link><description><![CDATA[He wanted justice, and for it risked family, work and health – to lose it all. Guido Strack was once an ambitious officer with the European Commission. But that was before he began to draw attention to abuses in his department. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Guido-Strack.jpg" length="68264" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:22:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Solidarity  | Countries cutting off Europe's poor (La Libre Belgique, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/971861-countries-cutting-europe-s-poor</link><description><![CDATA[Six member States refuse to allow funds from the Common Agricultural Policy to be used as food aid to the poor. On 1 January 2012, the budget for assistance to 18 million Europeans may drop from 480 to 113.5 million euros. It&#039;s a possibility that revolts La Libre Belgique. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/EU-food-banks.jpg" length="121931" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:04:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economic crisis | Youthful members of the full-time precariat (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/953511-youthful-members-full-time-precariat</link><description><![CDATA[The crisis has accelerated the emergence of a new social class in Europe. Dubbed &quot;the precariat&quot; by sociologists, it is made up of young people with no prospect of a decent job or a reasonable standard of living. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/precarita.jpg" length="207636" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:40:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Cameron quizzes EU work directive</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/917791-cameron-quizzes-eu-work-directive</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;David  Cameron moves to water down new EU job laws,&rdquo; headlines The Daily  Telegraph, revealing that the British PM might dilute the  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Daily-telegraph-06092011-100_0.jpg" length="35205" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:54:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economic crisis | Please tax me, I'm fabulously rich (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/896391-please-tax-me-i-m-fabulously-rich</link><description><![CDATA[As governments prepare their 2012 budgets, with the middle classes expected to tighten austerity belts to clean up the public accounts, more and more super-rich in several countries are expressing their readiness to share the burden and are asking to pay more tax. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/curier-suit.jpg" length="19933" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:57:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Social unrest | The street bankers (Der Standard, Vienna)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/852971-street-bankers</link><description><![CDATA[Europe is bailing out its financial centres, but not its youth. Three basic conditions –  education, employment and housing – are denied them. So when they fight back, says Der Standard&#039;s writer, they&#039;re just following the message from the top: take what you can and get out. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/europe-youth.jpg" length="157259" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:46:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Back to work permits for Romanians</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/849131-back-work-permits-romanians</link><description><![CDATA[The EU &quot;accepts Spain&rsquo;s limits on the access of Romanians&rdquo; to the Spanish labour market, headlines the daily La Raz&oacute;n, announcing that the European Commission [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/La-razon-10082011-100.jpg" length="40377" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:43:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Who is to gain from weak recovery?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/829351-who-gain-weak-recovery</link><description><![CDATA[On 3 August, the Romanian Minister for Finance will have to take &quot;the weightiest political decision of the year.&quot; &nbsp;As the Rom&acirc;nia liberă headline points [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Romania-libera-100.jpg" length="20705" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:48:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Papandreou fights his left-wing family (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/783081-papandreou-fights-his-left-wing-family</link><description><![CDATA[As part of his package of austerity measures voted in June, the Greek PM plans to sell off state assets like the national electricity board. But in a manner symptomatic of how deeply intertwined his country’s various forces are, he faces the hostility of a union his own party helped create. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/19072011-greece-nyt_0.jpg" length="69964" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:48:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austerity | Belt tightening general across Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/751751-belt-tightening-general-across-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Wave of social austerity in Europe,&rdquo; headlines the daily P&uacute;blico,  which reports on the &quot;new austerity packages designed to put public  accounts back [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110701publico.jpg" length="8074" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:40:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Food poverty | EU cuts funding to the poor</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/751601-eu-cuts-funding-poor</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The decision of the European Commission has paralysed the thousands of charities that help the poorest on the Old Continent: the budget for food aid [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:58:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Politicians united against mass strikes</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/747081-politicians-united-against-mass-strikes</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Britain takes sides,&rdquo; headlines the Independent, as Labour party leader Ed Miliband joined David Cameron in urging trade unions not to press ahead with a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110629independent.jpg" length="7033" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:11:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Jobs | Youth unemployment endemic in Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/742451-youth-unemployment-endemic-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;No jobs for the young in Europe&quot; leads the daily Politiken, which quotes Eurostat figures showing that one in five Europeans under 25 is unemployed&nbsp; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110627politiken.jpg" length="6847" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:18:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Luxembourg | Euro-demonstration against austerity</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/730701-euro-demonstration-against-austerity</link><description><![CDATA[Close to 15,000 demonstrators according to the organisers (7,500 according to police) marched on 21 June in Luxembourg City to protest against &quot;European economic governance&quot; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/la-voix-22062011-100.jpg" length="39523" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:17:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | &quot;Social Armageddon&quot; in Prague</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/719461-social-armageddon-prague</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;A typically Czech strike&quot;, headines Lidov&eacute; noviny, referring to &ldquo;The Good Soldier Schweik&rdquo;, the unfinished novel by Czech writer and satirist Jaroslav Ha&scaron;ek that features [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110617ln.jpg" length="7803" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:07:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Prague paralysed by transport strike</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/716191-prague-paralysed-transport-strike</link><description><![CDATA[For Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny, the strike organised for June 16 by the public transport unions in protest against the austerity measures of the Nečas government, and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110616hn.jpg" length="6952" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:56:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | The summer, autumn, winter of discontent</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/710691-summer-autumn-winter-discontent</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Unions prepare ground for wave upon wave of strikes,&rdquo; headlines The Times, after Unison, the country&rsquo;s largest public sector union, announced that 1.2 million of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/14062011-TheTimes-100.jpg" length="12945" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:10:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Unemployment | Italy&#039;s youth population in total slump</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/660701-italys-youth-population-total-slump</link><description><![CDATA[Young Italians are &quot;threatened with extinction&quot;, writes Corriere della Sera, quoting the alarm sounded by Giuseppe Roma &ndash; director of Censis, the Italian institute for [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 14:03:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania  | Hounding the black economy</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/642621-hounding-black-economy</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;78,000 freed from slavery,&quot; announces Evenimentul Zilei, quoting Prime Minister Emil Boc. According to Boc, the country&rsquo;s new Labour Code  which came into force [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Evenimentul-zilei-09052011.jpg" length="16476" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 14:02:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Not so poor kids</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/638981-not-so-poor-kids</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Kinder Surprise,&rdquo; announces the Financial Times Deutschland headline, which plays on the German word for &quot;children&quot; and the well-known chocolate treat. The daily explains that [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110506ftd.jpg" length="5955" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 14:47:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Labour market | Work in Germany? Yes, maybe (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/626561-work-germany-yes-maybe</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/work-solar.jpg" length="30066" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:38:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Amnesty for moonlighting</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/617441-amnesty-moonlighting</link><description><![CDATA[The Spanish government is preparing to give businesses &ldquo;a two-month amnesty to disclose untaxed labour,&rdquo; leads La Vanguardia. A decree-law, which should be approved on [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110426vanguardia.jpg" length="8077" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:33:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium  | Anti-austerity march on European Council</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/565521-anti-austerity-march-european-council</link><description><![CDATA[Brussels is preparing for a &ldquo;high-tension&rdquo; summit, writes Le Soir. In the run-up to the European Council meeting of 24 and 25 March, several Belgian [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Le-Soir-23032011-100.jpg" length="44226" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:51:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Who&#039;s afraid of new labour code?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/555691-whos-afraid-new-labour-code</link><description><![CDATA[In  its report on the thousands of Romanians (50,000 according to the  demonstration organisers, 7,000 according to official figures) who took  to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110317gandul.jpg" length="7675" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:05:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Interns to be paid even less</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/521031-interns-be-paid-even-less</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Interns  are to face a 20% pay cut. Those who currently take home 838 euros per  month will now earn 581,&quot; reports Portuguese [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/i-03012011-100.jpg" length="12124" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pensions | Everyone will work longer, except Poles</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/492341-everyone-will-work-longer-except-poles</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;They must work longer in the EU&rdquo;, notes Rzeczpospolita after the raising of retirement age as a way to help curb budget deficits was discussed [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/rzeczpospolita-07032011-130.JPG" length="38609" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:06:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bulgaria | Sofia embarassed by latest jobless figures</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/487241-sofia-embarassed-latest-jobless-figures</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Unemployment rises with rate in Bulgaria now third highest in the EU,&quot; headlines Dnevnik, which reports on Eurostat figures  published on 1st February. According [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110202dnevnik.jpg" length="7492" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:28:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Green light for pension reform</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/481641-green-light-pension-reform</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;No end to contributions,&quot; headlines ABC, following the announcement that Jos&eacute; Lu&iacute;s Rodr&iacute;guez Zapatero&rsquo;s government and Spain&rsquo;s trade unions have reached agreement on the reform [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110128abc.jpg" length="7993" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:03:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Employment | Come back to Germany, Pepe (La Vanguardia, Barcelona)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/474681-come-back-germany-pepe</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/arts-students-barcelona.jpg" length="81962" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:04:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Battle over the future of Fiat</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/456771-battle-over-future-fiat</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;We are ready to leave Mirafiori.&quot; Corriere della Sera&rsquo;s front-page cites a warning from Fiat CEO, Sergio Marchionne, who insists he is ready to close [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/11012011-Corriere-100.jpg" length="15640" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:03:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Record unemployment - glimmer of hope</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/449961-record-unemployment-glimmer-hope</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;4,100,073&quot;: ABC posts the Spanish jobless count in December on its front-page streamer. 2010 set &quot;a new record for annual unemployment&rdquo;, observes the conservative Spanish [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110105abc.jpg" length="8239" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:01:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austerity | Hard-up families in affluent Austria</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/429881-hard-families-affluent-austria</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;One in five large families near the poverty line,&rdquo; headlines Der Standard after the Ministry of Social Affairs released a report revealing that families with [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101215standard.jpg" length="6329" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:39:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Austerity targets pregnant mothers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/419191-austerity-targets-pregnant-mothers</link><description><![CDATA[G&acirc;ndul leads with a front-page warning to mothers-to-be: &quot;If you give birth after 1 January, you will be back on the job within a year.&quot; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/07122010-Gandul-100.jpg" length="20592" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:22:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Half a million working poor</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/413631-half-million-working-poor</link><description><![CDATA[Portugal &ldquo;already has 500,000 working poor&rdquo;, reports Jornal de Not&iacute;cias, noting that within the working population, the 20% highest-paid earn 6.1 times more than the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/02122010-Jornal-Noticia-100.jpg" length="18580" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:40:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austerity  | Rage spreads across Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/404751-rage-spreads-across-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Citizens are losing patience,&quot; headlines P&uacute;blico, in the wake of yesterday&rsquo;s marches against austerity in Europe. Portugal was paralysed by a general strike, Italian students [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/25112010-Publico-100.jpg" length="13396" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:12:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debates | Mind the pay gap (The Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/388441-mind-pay-gap</link><description><![CDATA[Both on the left and right, consensus in growing that the ever widening gap between executive pay and ordinary wages is squeezing out the middle class, and undermining our democracies, writes Times columnist Anatole Kaletsky. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/inequality-2.jpg" length="48061" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:42:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Brussels down on national labour law</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/377951-brussels-down-national-labour-law</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Brussels is pressuring Portugal for more labour law reform,&rdquo; announces Di&aacute;rio de Not&iacute;cias. On 4 November, the European Commission asked Lisbon &ldquo;to do away with [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/05112010-Diario-Notici-100.jpg" length="11644" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:22:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austerity | Pity the poor civil servant (Il Foglio, Milan)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/372061-pity-poor-civil-servant</link><description><![CDATA[They used to have it made — nice easy work, good pensions and job security — but the swingeing cuts that have come with the crisis threaten to end forever the cushy life of Europe&#039;s fast-disappearing civil servants. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bureaucrat-desk.jpg" length="28387" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:00:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austerity | Unions head for Judgement Thursday</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/369741-unions-head-judgement-thursday</link><description><![CDATA[With trade unions in France, Romania, Italy, UK, Greece, and Spain planning action against govermnent-imposed austerity measures, Warsaw daily Rzeczpospolita warns that Thursday 28 October, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/25102010-Rzeczpospolita-100.jpg" length="11511" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:28:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | EU court rules against unscrupulous bosses</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/369031-eu-court-rules-against-unscrupulous-bosses</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;European court puts paid to sharp dealing employers&quot; headlines De Volkskrant. The European Court of Justice has ruled that companies purchasing businesses and re-employing existing [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/22102010-Volkskrant-100.jpg" length="13381" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:47:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Press review | Thatcher heirs make the dream come true (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/367341-thatcher-heirs-make-dream-come-true</link><description><![CDATA[While Britain’s left leaning press is howling at the sheer scale of Chancellor George Osborne’s €91.5 billion cuts, conservatives are praying that this scaling back of the state will quickly lead to growth. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Thatcher-Cameron.jpg" length="42229" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:23:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Paris calling, but why not London? (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/367301-paris-calling-why-not-london</link><description><![CDATA[While millions are taking to the streets of France to protest against the Sarkozy government’s proposed raising of retirement age, England, once the scene of anti-Thatcher riots in the nineties is quiet as her heirs in the Cameron adminstration implement the severest cuts in living memory. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Shrank-difference-4_0.jpg" length="71251" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:14:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | Are things getting out of control? (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/365261-are-things-getting-out-control</link><description><![CDATA[The campaign against pension reform has provided a catalyst for other movements that are less easily controlled. Now that marching workers have been joined by huge numbers of secondary school students, the French press worries about a situation that could soon get out of hand. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/nanterre.jpg" length="67907" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:56:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | This isn&#039;t just about pensions (Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/365181-isnt-just-about-pensions</link><description><![CDATA[What with service stations out of petrol, protesters setting cars on fire, schools closed, the mass demonstrations against the pension reform are plunging France into chaos. But it’s not just about pensions: the people are up in arms about what many consider an unjust system. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/manifestants-sarko.jpg" length="55312" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:39:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
</channel></rss>
