Recent EU news
Latest items of recent news relevant to the European Union as reported in our fortnightly newswire.
European Union: Transparent and predictable working conditions
Last December a proposal was made for a new EU Directive on ‘Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions’ …
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European Union: Average weekly working time of managers declined
The average weekly working time of managers in the European Union has declined steadily and consistently over the last ten years by a total of 4% from 45 …
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European Union: Domain owners warned they could lose sites over no-deal Brexit
One consequence of Brexit that few had taken into account was the continued ownership of the “EU” domain name for websites and emails if the registered user was based in the UK …
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EU/UK: FedEE solution accepted
The European Union has finally signalled to the UK government that it is prepared to negotiate beyond the October 30th deadline – until January and beyond if need be …
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European Union: Reciprocal agreement for free flow of personal data signed with Japan
The European Union has reached agreement with the Japanese government on the free movement of personal data …
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European Union: Temporary and part-time jobs on the rise
Data just published by Eurostat shows that in 2017, the proportion of temporary employees to all employees in the EU was 13%, with the highest shares of temporary employees recorded in Poland and Spain (both 26%), and the lowest in Romania (1%), Lithuania (2%) …
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European Union: 15.2% of young workers across the EU remained unemployed
Over the year to June 2018, total youth unemployment (those aged under age 25) decreased by 386,000 across the EU to 3 …
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EU/Vietnam: Free trade agreement (EVFTA) finalised
After 6 years of negotiation a Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has been finalised between Vietnam and the EU …
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European Union: GDP up by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.4% the EU28
According to the statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat, over the year to Q2 2018, gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0 …
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European Union: What is the employment rate among migrants in 2017?
The problems faced by foreign workers entering the EU is well illustrated by recent figures from the EU agency Eurostat …
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EU/Japan: Economic partnership agreement signed
The European Commission has finally signed a strategic partnership agreement with Japan …
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European Union: Four out of five recent graduates find a job
In 2017 80% of people (aged 20-34) who are not students and completed their education at upper secondary level or above in the last three years had found work …
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European Union: Working from home at 5% in 2017
Eurostat statisticians have come up with some interesting data about working from home …
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European Union: Average hourly labour costs rose Q1 2018
Both the average hourly labour cost and average wage component of labour costs rose over the year to Q1 2018 in the EU business sector by 2 …
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