France’s new cabinet has been welcomed with the same old bad news: unemployment data for July was in the red yet again. That means the jobless rate has risen for 36 consecutive months, if we exclude the one month in which the government admitted a technical malfunction compromised the data. A new historical low is […] read more

Official figures show that France’s unemployment rate rose for the nine consecutive month in July, with 3,424,000 people out of work. read more

The latest official European Union unemployment figures show that the progress made in reducing the bloc’s joblessness in recent months has come to a halt. There were nearly 25 million unemployed adults in the E-U in July, unchanged from the previous month. Our correspondent Jerome Hughes reports from Brussels. read more

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Jane Collins UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. Roll-out of the European Youth Initiative (debate). read more

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  The Youth in Action Programme, which ran from 2007 to 2013, aimed to inspire a sense of active citizens, solidarity, and tolerance among young Europeans, as well as involve them in shaping the future of the European Union.   read more

The European Commission promotes dialogue between youth and policy makers in order to increase active citizenship, foster social integration, and ensure inclusion of the young in EU policy development.   read more

A group of young ex-offenders from Slough are creating a website to help others who have recently been released from prison to find work. Twenty-three-year-old Jodie is employed as a groundworker through the Blue Sky rehabilitation scheme, but others are not so lucky. They realise that people in their position are in danger of reoffending […] read more

A call to arms to employers to take on ex-offenders This film made by film maker Emmanuelle Purdon aims at promoting employment for ex-offenders to help prevent future re-offending. An external evaluation has shown that services supporting prison leavers provided by the St Giles Trust reduce re-offending by an additional 40%. Introduced by Sir Richard […] read more

REGULATION (EU) No 1296/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 December 2013 on a European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (“EaSI”) and amending Decision No 283/2010/EU establishing a European Progress Microfinance Facility for employment and social inclusion. read more

The Council Resolution on the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010- 18) ( 1 ), also known as ‘EU Youth Strategy’, requires an EU Youth Report to be drawn up at the end of each three-year cycle, with a dual objective: namely to evaluate the progress, and to serve as a […] read more

EQLS policy briefs This policy brief highlights findings on a specific topic from Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) that is of particular interest from a policy perspective. It brings results of the analysis of these data together with evidence from other Eurofound projects to formulate a number of policy pointers. The focus of […] read more

This supplement presents recent data on the intra-EU mobility of workers in the European Union. It updates the previous supplements on mobility published in the June 2012 and June 2013 EU Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review (ESSQR).1 The first section provides general information about the numbers of mobile EU citizens and their labour market […] read more

150 young people from 27 EU Member States join Minister Frances Fitzgerald & EU Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou at Conference in Royal Hospital Kilmainham   Unemployment emerges as the biggest challenge to the social inclusion of young people   Conference marks culmination of consultations with 11,000 young people across 27 EU member states.   Frances Fitzgerald […] read more