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EUROPEAN REVIEW

ISSUE 1 - Page 9

 

Europe on-line

You're nobody without a website.

EU Employers Network

http://www.euen.co.uk

Find out how it looks from the other side.

Citizens First

http://ec.europa.eu/citizensrights/front_end/index_en.htm

Information on working, moving, living etc in member states. Commission site.

EU Brussels Virtual Tour

http://europa.eu.int/virtvis/

Making good use of Java. A virtual tour of institutions.

EUR-OP

http://publications.europa.eu/index_en.htm

This is where you order publications from.

European Court of Justice

http://curia.europa.eu/en/

Contains the text of recent rulings

European Political Parties

http://www.politicalresources.net/europe.htm

Links to the major European parties

European Union

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/frmonde/euro/sommaire.gb.html

An unusually long address has not stopped this site from being voted 2nd in Europe by Internet World magazine.

European Environment Agency

http://www.eea.eu.int/

Information from the EU agency with reports on pollution, air quality and more.

 

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int

This website was launched by Commissioner Padraig Flynn no less, of the employment & social affairs dept. 100 records added every month.

InfoNet

http://europa.eu.int/infonet/

 This is the site of DGX, the Commission department responsible for disseminating information for trade unions, women and young people; and part-funding this project, incidentally. You can only access the site via a password. Write to European Commission DG X/A.5, T120 8/22, fax 00 322 299 9302, or e-mail trunsoaf@dg10.cec.be. Contains documents, news and a link to a magazine.

And between the lines

Those busy people at Eurostat are fond of a table or two.

 

Unemployment falls in member states

November '97 - latest figures available


Nov

Oct


Nov

Oct

Luxembourg

3.6%

3.7%

Ireland

9.8%

9.9%

Austria

4.5%

4.5%

Germany

10.0%

10.0%

Netherlands

- %

4.9%

Italy

- %

12.2%

Denmark

- %

5.8%

France

12.5%

12.6%

Portugal

5.9%

6.0%

Finland

12.8%

13.0%

UK

6.9%

7.0%

Spain

20.8%

20.8%

Sweden

9.2%

9.7%

Greece

- %

- %

Belgium

9.3%

9.4%

EU

10.6%

10.7%

 

Fixed-term contracts (mostly) rising

Between 1983 and 1996


1996

1983

Luxembourg

2.6%

3.2%

Belgium

5.9%

5.4%

UK

6.9%

5.5%

Italy

7.5%

6.6%

Austria

8.0%

-%

Ireland

9.2%

6.1%

Germany

11.0%

-%

Portugal

10.4%

-%

Denmark

11.2%

-%

Sweden

11.6%

-%

Netherlands

12.0%

5.8%

France

12.5%

3.3%

Finland

17.3%

-%

Spain

33.6%

-%

Greece

11.0%

16.2%

Percentage of 15-24 year olds leaving the education system with at most the first level of secondary education, 1996. The UK is in eleventh place - 50% people in this age group have no higher qualifications. 

Austria

23%

Germany

26%

Sweden

27%

Belgium

28%

Finland

31%

France

34%

Ireland

35%

Den'k

38%

Greece

40%

Neth'ds

44%

Italy

59%

Lux'g

63%

Spain

66%

Portugal

79%

 

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