News
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09/12/2015
Are we richer or poorer than before the onset of the crisis?
The global financial crisis triggered a deep recession in 2008 and 2009, the deepest since the Great Recession of the early 1930s. In 2009, the EU's GDP dropped by 4.4%, and in 2014 it barely exceeded the level of 2008.
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08/12/2015
Disabilities: Access City Award 2016 for accessible-friendly cities goes to Milan!
On the occasion of the European Day for People with Disabilities, the European Commission is pleased to announce that Milan (Italy) is the winner of the 2016 Access City Award. Wiesbaden (Germany), Toulouse (France), Vaasa (Finland) and Kaposvár (Hungary) were also awarded for their efforts to improve accessibility for people with disabilities and the elderly.
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07/12/2015
New pathways for the long-term unemployed
Today, the Employment and Social Policy Ministers have reached an agreement during the EPSCO Council on the Commission's proposal for a Recommendation on long-term unemployment.
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04/12/2015
Expanding business start-up support for disadvantaged groups can tackle unemployment and social exclusion, report said
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Commission have published The Missing Entrepreneurs 2015, which examines the potential of inclusive entrepreneurship policies and programmes in the European Union. Target groups are those who are under-represented and disadvantaged in entrepreneurship and self-employment, including youth, women, seniors, the unemployed, ethnic minorities and immigrants, people with disabilities and other groups.
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03/12/2015
Demographics and the economy: how a declining working-age population may change Europe's growth prospects
According to Eurostat's demographic projections, Europe's working age population (aged between 20 and 64 years) will be declining by 0.4% every year between now and 2040, a decline that has already started in 2010. This will have major implications for the EU's growth potential in the long run.
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02/12/2015
Commission proposes to make products and services more accessible to the disabled persons
The European Commission today proposed a European Accessibility Act, which will set common accessibility requirements for certain key products and services that will help people with disabilities at EU level to participate fully in society.
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27/11/2015
Youth Guarantee in practice: learning a trade from scratch
With support from the Youth Guarantee scheme, many young people in Europe have managed to find a job or follow a course which gives their career a boost. Here's the story of Andrei, from Romania.
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25/11/2015
Inclusive growth? Varying trends in disposable household income over the last decade
The economic crisis has put income inequality high on the political agenda. Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st century" made the topic also a subject of coffee breaks, while Wilkinson and Pickett's "The Spirit Level" illustrated how inequality is associated with various social ills in our societies.
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18/11/2015
EU Labour Market Policies: how active are we and how do we respond to unemployment?
Labour market policies comprise a range of financial and practical policy interventions that can help people when they face difficulties in the labour market. They aim to bring the unemployed and the inactive into employment and help people in low-quality or threatened jobs find better employment opportunities.
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18/11/2015
New start for working parents and caregivers: Commission launches public consultation on work-life balance
The European Commission has today launched a public consultation on how to improve work-life balance and reduce obstacles to women's participation in the labour market, thereby contributing to the employment headline target of the Europe 2020 Strategy.