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"Part-time work must be the exception, not the rule," said politician Michael Kretschmer in an interview with German newspaper The Handelsblatt published earlier this week. As part of his campaign to be re-elected to the state parliament this year, the centre-right CDU minister homed in on the question of Germany's productivity. "We have to ensure that we come out of the crisis with growth and full employment - for me that means a 40-hour week for everyone," he said. "It was a mistake that the option of part-time has gone from being an exception to a legally secured rule." Since 2001, when Ger...
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"The public procurement market should be leveraged as a key instrument for promoting social value, enhancing social capital and aligning with the EU's ambitions for green and digital transformations," the former Italian prime minister wrote. Since reform of the framework in 2014, however, he pointed out that procedures have not been simplified, access for SMEs has not been improved and environmental, innovative and social aspects have only been taken into account to a limited extent. According to a recent analysis by the European Court of Auditors (ECA), the public procurement market has not o...
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Unemployment across Europe showed little change in March, compared to February, according to Eurostat. The rate in the Eurozone remained at 6.5%, the same as in the first two months of the year and down from 6.6% in March 2023. Across the 27 countries in the EU, the rate slightly decreased to 6% from 6.1% in February. Compared to March last year, it remained unchanged. There was an estimated 13.258 million people without jobs in the EU, of whom 11.087 million in the euro area, were unemployed in March 2024. France works to find further ways to scale back on unemployment benefits UK unemploymen...
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Africa’s influence on the world stage is growing. Not only does the continent play an increasing diplomatic role in the Ukraine war; its membership of, and participation in, multilateral forums such as the G20 and BRICS is growing, and it demands a place in the UN Security Council. Amid the global scramble for influence, and in another sign of Africa's new-found importance, the continent has recently received a flurry of high-level visitors. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and Chinese and Russian foreign ministers Qin Gang and Sergei Lavrov, have all v...
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Five social-democrat lawmakers will visit Amazon facilities in Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands today (12 April), after representatives from the e-commerce platform were banned from entering the European Parliament following several no-shows at planned hearings. During the visits, conducted together with trade union representatives, the lawmakers will want to hear more about working conditions from employees, a press statement by union UNI Europa, which coordinated the visits, said. The Socialist and Democrats (S&D) employment and social affairs spokesperson Agnes Jongerius (the Nethe...
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The gender pay gap is still very much evident in Europe. Several indicators exhibit the inequality between women and men in many arenas, but economic life is one of the key areas affecting women the most. Despite some improvements in Europe, women still suffer from gender gaps when it comes to wages, labour force participation, employment and hierarchical positions in the workplace. On International Women’s Day (March 8), an annual initiative promoted by the United Nations to raise awareness of gender-related issues, Euronews Next crunches the data in these main indicators to give a fuller pic...
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Hungary's unemployment rate jumped to 4.6% from November to January, up from 4% in the same period the previous year. The increase means that the number of people out of work aged 15-74 has gone up by 30,000 to 226,000, according to new statistics released by Hungary's central statistics office on Friday. The office said that of the total number of unemployed people in Hungary, 121,500 were men, with their unemployment rate rising to 4.7%. Some 104,300 women were also out of work, with their rate up to 4.5%. The statistics mark a steady but consistent rise in unemployment since mid-2022, as Hu...
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Economic output remained unchanged in the eurozone in the final three months of 2023, and slightly expanded in the EU, confirming the first estimates from Eurostat. The eurozone economy’s stagnation follows a 0.1% contraction in the previous quarter, meaning that the bloc has just avoided a recession, essentially avoiding two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product (GDP). The economy has not shown any sign of life over the last year, contracting or growing by a slight 0.1% since the beginning of 2023. In a yearly comparison, the numbers also suggest a standstill economy, the ...
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