Israel Israel: Tel Aviv protest targets Netanyahu over COVID-19 economic aid Protesters accuse the Israeli prime minister of failing to address economic woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. 12/07/2020
Portugal Portugal: UK COVID-19 quarantine restriction hits Algarve tourism Industry analysts say only about a third of the usual number of tourists will visit Portugal's Algarve region this summer. 11/07/2020
world news Jobless rate to hit record this year in richest economies, says OECD The average unemployment rate across the OECD is forecast to reach 9.4 per cent at the end of 2020, and remain stubbornly high at 7.7 per cent in 2021. 07/07/2020
United Kingdom Coronavirus: 1.6m people in the UK now claiming unemployment benefit There are fewer jobs available in Britain than when records began. 16/06/2020
World COVID-19 having 'disproportionate' impact on young workers, warns ILO More than one in six young people have been forced to stop working since the pandemic began, the UN's International Labour Organisation has highlighted, warning it "make it much more difficult to rebuild a better, post-COVID economy". 28/05/2020
state of the union Europe's week: Recovery, risk and US-China relations Paris and Berlin teamed up to present their post-pandemic financial recovery plans for Europe, but not everyone was cheering Macron and Merkel. 22/05/2020
Spain Hunger queues form in Madrid in wake of COVID-19 lockdown Tens of thousands of people in the Spanish capital are now turning to food banks and neighbourhood associations to cushion the economic blow of lockdown. 18/05/2020
world news Is more working from home going to be a lockdown legacy? Nearly four-in-10 people in the EU began working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Will they stay away from the office, permanently? 15/05/2020
World Ryanair to cut up to 3,000 jobs and close bases in Europe Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive Officer of Ryanair, said he regretted the cuts and singled out "manifestly unfair" rules put in place by the French government on airport taxes. 01/05/2020
World World economy 'unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels before 2022' The world economy is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels before 2022 at the earliest, the Dutch banking group ING has warned. 30/04/2020
World Nearly half of world’s workers risk losing their livelihoods, says ILO The ILO estimates that 1.6 billion people are in “severe danger” of losing between 60 and 80 per cent of their income 29/04/2020
Spain Spain's poorest are being punished by the coronavirus crisis Thousands have lost all income and aid organisations are overwhelmed as lines at food banks have tripled. 28/04/2020
real economy EU's 100 billion euro scheme to tackle coronavirus unemployment With unemployment surging across Europe and worldwide, will the EU's SURE scheme (Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency) help avoid another pandemic - joblessness - once the COVID-19 emergency has receded? 22/04/2020
Poland 'Our plans collapsed in a second': Polish lockdown hits migrants hard There are nearly two million migrant workers in Poland. Most have lost jobs during the pandemic and some are frantically trying to find a way home. 06/04/2020
world news Coronavirus pandemic pushes jobless figures into record territory Europe is seeing record numbers of jobless as business shut and travel all but stops over the global pandemic. 02/04/2020
brussels bureau EU hopes to mitigate lockdown and help workers with €100 billion fund Brussels has launched a €100 billion fund to help those feeling the economic fallout from coronavirus lockdowns. 02/04/2020
brussels bureau Coronavirus in Europe: one million job losses in two weeks Trade unions are calling on the EU to save jobs with income replacement systems. For this to work, a 200-400 billion euro fund is needed 31/03/2020
brussels bureau How should the EU mitigate the coronavirus economic downturn? The EU is looking at different ways of how to help businesses and workers weather the economic storm created by coronavirus uncertainty. 24/03/2020
brussels bureau The Brief: Citizens' choice - what should Team Ursula focus on in first 100 days? We asked the people of Brussels what they think should be the policy priority of the new commission for the first 100 days: unemployment, migration, climate change, or gender equality - find out which issue came out top. 27/11/2019
brussels bureau The Brief: MEPs' choice: politicians rate incoming European Commission's priorities In Strasbourg, MEPs voiced their opinions on what they believed to be the most important priority of the incoming Commission. 26/11/2019
Iraq Euronews Tonight | Why are protesters taking to the streets in Iraq? "People elected a new government, a new leadership, and yet it seems that the system of Iraq's government, the new system post-2003, post-Saddam Hussein, is failing," expert Bilal Wahab told Euronews. 03/10/2019
World EU unemployment drops to lowest level in nearly two decades: Eurostat Official figures from Eurostat found that the unemployment rate for the EU stood at 6.2% in August — the lowest level since January 2000. 30/09/2019
View Why Andrew Yang is totally wrong about robots replacing workers ǀ View In a world of job-killing automation, you'd expect to see an epidemic of unemployed workers. Right now the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low. 12/09/2019
Business The Brief: Greece unemployment rate drops to lowest level since 2011 The unemployment rate in Greece has dropped to the lowest level since May 2011. This is a sign that the country's troubled economy is recovering and showing modest growth. 09/08/2019
Business Unemployment rate in EU plunges to 6.3 percent Unemployment across the eurozone has hit a fresh 11 year low in May 2019. 05/07/2019
brussels bureau Europeans skeptic of improving economy, questions of job security The economy may look better on paper, but there are still clear economic disparities between regions of Europe. A Nobel-prize winning economist explained how the situation can improve. 20/06/2019
