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Eternal Traineeship of the Eurojobless Mind
The road towards the ideal job is long, and Brussels is merciless on those who don’t have the nerves or patience - especially between the disappointment regarding job offers and evenings spent by young, wanna-be Eurocrats networking to get noticed
work, university, training, bruxelles, european institutions, job seekers, society
Startups, ethics and the crisis: focus on young people in Turin
After the crisis months of unemployment, training and scholarship schemes, some Italian youngsters decide to swap 'instability' for life as an entrepreneur. Examples from the industrial city of Turin
work, eu crisis on the ground, italy, youth, europe on the ground, economical crisis, unemployment
Why Scandinavians do life better
Public spirit, political life, way of life, welfare state...short analysis on why people from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland might be happier with life than the rest of us Europeans
work, norway, scandinavia, northern eu, public health, job seekers, politics
Film review Germany: interns feature in 'Résiste - Aufstand der Praktikanten'
'A Quantum Revolution' has been screening in German cinemas since 12 November
work, cinema, generation precarity, germany, film, labour market, precarity
Europe’s under-25 joblessness woes
5 million under-25 job-hunters hit the European dole lists at the beginning of 2009. That’s one million more than the year before! A whopping 39% of 16- to 24-year-olds in Spain are unemployed – and they’re not alone. A generation of graduates speak out
- Young graduates job-hunt in Italy, Portugal and Greece
- Young Spaniards escape crisis by moving around in Europe
- Europe's five million unemployed youth
- Young Europeans would like to be Scandinavian
- Europe's youth stack up the degrees to shun the dole
- 2009's graduate flavour comes in crisis: part one, England and Ireland
London's so 2008: Quebec is the new Eldorado for the French
Follow six ex-pat stories of hopes, dreams and disappointments in the hunt for a job and an adventure, direct from their mountain cabins in Canada
work, expatriation, expatriates, canada, america, young french, job seekers
Is your gran a 'silver surfer'?
French grandmas in stinging nettles, German grandpas at the European parliament and Polish grannies working in communist toilets - there's a visually colourful variety of 'ageing' expressions across the European continent
work, tower of babel, age, pensioner, languages, expressions, consumers
Berlin to Champagne: anecdote of harvesting wine
For many people picking grapes off the vine and throwing them into a bucket is farmwork like cutting asparagus or picking strawberries. In one way they are right: the intellectual requirements of each of these activities is at most low. For me though other criteria counted
Brussels: the old age of youth
The crisis is synonymous with young unemployent. The capital of Europe is currently baiting its breath for the European elections between 4 and 7 June 2009. Within, 33% are young jobshunters. Yet the Belgian capital remains an Eldorado for internships, its opportunities in multinationals and for being a fairground for new European politics. We feel for the precarities of the days, its languages and the nights. Three journalists, a video maker and a photographer from the cafebabel.com network feature in this month's 'cities' mission, named 'EUdebate on the Ground'
Spain, crisis and the difference between equality and parity
For the first time in the economic crisis, men are proportionally losing jobs faster than women are. Is it a victory for the latter? It’s a long road to equality – or should we say, to parity?
work, parity, feminism, men and women, gender equality, economical crisis, politics
'The Wonderous World of Laundry': forgiving free market in Berlin and Warsaw
The global credit crunch has quickly established it self to be a test of European solidarity. The government in Berlin faces a particularly difficult challenge as 2009 brings them the presidential elections and the elections for European parliament. This is also the time to fulfil the promise of opening up the German labour market to the ten new EU states, including Poland. Will pre-election fever deal with the ever-increasing unemployment on both sides of the Odra River – without compromising the strong relationship between Berlin and Warsaw?
work, berlin, labour market, poland, european union, borders, berlinale
Suicide and stress in the workplace
Enslaved into the rhythm of work, are employees mere instruments of their jobs? Stress clogs up the cogs of any enterprise. What are the causes of this troubling phenomenon?
work, suicide, labour, stress, unemployment, employment, society
