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Overqualified graduates desperately seek internships
They would be willing to pay to work: from the private sector to the European institutions, interns are the only category of 'workers' that we rarely hear complain. This is the story of the debate organised by cafebabel.com Brussels in the Belgian capital
job, blogs, blog review, eurogeneration, bruxelles, jeudi noir, precarity
Historical dinner live: on the menu, one president
Tony Blair? (or David Miliband?) Herman van Rompuy? Peter Balkenende...? The culmination of a long, outdrawn and rather undemocratic process that is shaping the future of Europe is nigh; 19 November, to be precise, and the cafebabel.com Brussels team are invited - check their blog out this evening
job, tony blair, jean claude juncker, eu president, high representative of foreign affairs, jan peter balkenende, power
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
- Read the special edition Europe’s under-25 joblessness woes
- Young graduates job-hunt in Italy, Portugal and Greece
- Young Spaniards escape crisis by moving around in Europe
- Europe's five million unemployed youth
- Europe's youth stack up the degrees to shun the dole
- Young Europeans would like to be Scandinavian
- 2009's graduate flavour comes in crisis: part one, England and Ireland
Follow the German 'work and travel' slogan summer
The Germans use the term to emphasise an 'alternative kind of trip'. Getting to know the people and country whilst picking strawberries, lying on the beach, going to concerts and getting work experience all at the same time? The summer seems too just short to carry out all our plans. So how else is it possible to combine work and travel?
job, travel, europe, vacation, summer, university, internships
