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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.

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.

United Kingdom

Coronavirus: 1.6m people in the UK now claiming unemployment benefit

There are fewer jobs available in Britain than when records began.

World News

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".

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My Europe Series

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.

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.

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?

World News

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.

World News

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.

World News

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

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.

Real Economy

EU's 100 billion euro scheme to tackle coronavirus unemployment

In partnership with The European Commission

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.