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Eurofound has just launched the Eurofound Restructuring Monitor for the 3rd quarter of 2009. The report records a total of 326 cases of restructuring in the European Union between July 1 and September 30 2009, involving some 119,000 announced job losses and 36,000 announced job gains. Thankfully, the huge surge in restructuring-related job losses [...]
The OECD today published its Economic Survey of the European Union. The report looks at the reforms needed to help the region strengthen its long-term economic prospects as it emerges from the worst recession in 50 years. The 2009 survey focuses on four main policy actions:
• Strengthening innovation
• Deeping the single market
• Implementing energy policy [...]
The Eurostat publication presents annual averages of the main results of the EU Labour Force Survey for the EU-27 and for all Member States. Indicators presented in this publication are: employment rates, part-time employment as share of total employment, number of employed people broken down by economic activity and by occupation of the main job, [...]
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) has launched a new report about undeclared work in the European Union. The study is accompanied by a knowledge bank that identifies measures that have been proven to be most effective, as well as assess the transferability of such measures. Both represent an [...]
This report presents an overview of the industrial relations and employment and working conditions of self-employed workers in the European Union and Norway. The study was compiled on the basis of individual national reports submitted by the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) and the European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO) correspondents. The study examines recent trends [...]
A solar power station on the French island of Réunion and a center for aeronautical research in the Belgian region of Wallonia received two of the EU’s annual awards for best regional projects. Wales, Greece and the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia also featured among the winners at the RegioStars ceremony on February 16.
The EU’s [...]
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The 2008 European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) recently published shows the European Union making substantial progress in its innovation performance preceding the financial crisis. The relative innovation gap with the US and Japan was reduced, in particular amid strong progress by many new Member States such as Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria. Across the EU, [...]
The European Commission is expecting GDP in the European Union to fall about 1.8% in 2009 before recovering moderately to 0.5% in 2010. The Commission usually publishes its interim forecast in February and only for the EU’s seven biggest economies and for inflation and growth in the current year. The present exercise resembles more closely [...]
