Since almost one year Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine continues provoking immense human suffering, fuels high energy prices and inflation and has also led to significant disruption in global supply chains. This has impacted the EU economy and amplified the uncertainty of economic oper...
The October 2022 edition of the Employment and Social Developments Quarterly Review presents and discusses data that was mostly collected in the first half of 2022 and made available in the weeks ahead of publication of this review. The Russian unprovoked invasion of Ukraine that started on 24 F...
The tragic events occurring in Ukraine are dramatically changing the political, economic and social outlook in Europe. This March 2022 edition of the Employment and Social Developments Quarterly Review discusses data collected before the unjustified invasion of Ukraine by Russia on 24 February 2...
After the strong rebound of the second quarter of 2021, the economy has kept improving. Last spring and summer, the lifting of containment measures, and the improvement in the sanitary situation, fostered a rise in activity by companies and consumers alike. As the consumption increased, employme...
Fuelled by the phasing out of lockdowns and other Covid-19 related restrictions, and facilitated by the extensive vaccination rate in Europe, the EU economy and labour market has started to recover. The EU is cushioning the economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic whilst making Eur...
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and in the final months of 2020 governments across the EU reintroduced containment measures to combat the spread of the virus and protect their citizens. These measures inevitably had an impact on our economies and employment, which – according to the late...
Beyond its negative effects on public health, the COVID-19 pandemic represents a serious blow to the economy and labour market of the European Union. However, the impact on the labour market was softened thanks to policy measures adopted in the EU. Employment fell less than GDP in the second qua...
This quarterly review shows that the health crisis and the necessary containment measures adopted to fight the pandemic have taken a toll on the EU economy and notably employment. In the first quarter of 2020, employment in Europe declined after almost seven years of continuous growth. Even thou...
This is the first quarterly review since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and public health crisis, which has led to an abrupt change of employment developments and social outlook in the EU as well as globally. This review is based on the latest data available until the end of January 20...