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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.

Europe News

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.

Europe News

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

Europe News

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.

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Europe News

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.

Europe News

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.

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.

World News

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.

USA

Euroviews. 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.

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.

Business

Unemployment rate in EU plunges to 6.3 percent

Unemployment across the eurozone has hit a fresh 11 year low in May 2019.

Europe News

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.

World News

Which EU countries offer the best employment rates for migrants?

The United Kingdom has the most favourable employment rate statistics for EU citizens, according to Eurostat.

Real Economy

How will the EU elections affect member states' economies?

In partnership with The European Commission

There has rarely been much public interest in the European Parliament elections, but now they are being held at a challenging time for Europe. But what do voters really want?

Italy

What is Italy's new 'Citizens' Income' scheme? | Euronews Answers

The government says those who take part will be signing an employment pact or a social inclusion pact, with recipients expected to retrain and get back into the work force.

World News

Argentina's president defends austerity policies

Maurici Macri's heated speech at the Union address in Congress called on support to slash the fiscal deficit while thousands demonstrated in the streets of Buenos Aires against living in poverty.

World

Your Call: Was France's Decathlon right to pull its 'running hijab'?

Watch Wednesday night's full episode of Your Call.

World

Positive EU unemployment figures might not be telling the whole story

Last year saw the lowest unemployment rates this century. However, the figures may not be as promising as they look on paper.

My Europe Series

Fashion victims: Bulgaria's textile workers on the poverty line

With one hundred days to go before the next European elections, Insiders goes to Bulgaria to discuss the difficult working conditions for textile workers in a country which has the lowest minimum wage in Europe.

World News

Higher unemployment rates in EU cities for people born outside bloc

Croatia and the Czech Republic are the only EU countries where unemployment rates of people born outside of the bloc were not higher than those born within it, according to Eurostat data.