NATO chief says it should be ready for bad news from Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO should be ready for bad news from Ukraine, according to his interview with ARD television on Saturday.

COVID Crisis: 1.9mln People in UK 'Have Not Worked for More than Six Months' - Tasnim News Agency

Almost 2 million people in Britain have not worked for more than six months during the coronavirus pandemic, amid growing risk to workers from long-term economic damage caused by the crisis.

Deutsche Bank envisage 10.000 supressions de postes

Le géant bancaire allemand en difficulté Deutsche Bank a peaufiné ces dernières semaines un plan pour supprimer quelque 10.000 emplois dans le monde, soit environ un employé sur dix, rapporte mercredi le Wall Street Journal.

Germany to add 600,000 jobs in 2018: study

Germany's labor market will be marked by enduring strength in 2018, the newspaper Neue Passauer Press reported on Tuesday, with reference to a study by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK).

Garbage piling up Greek cities as sanitation workers' protest continues

Tones of garbage are piling up in Athens and other major cities as a nationwide protest against job cuts called by unions representing municipal sanitation workers entered its second week on Monday.

US approves 2-bln-USD missiles sale to UAE

The US State Department has approved a possible sale of 160 missiles to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for an estimated 2 billion US dollars, the Pentagon said Thursday.

EU Kaos: After Barroso row, Juncker proposes tighter EU ethics rules

The European Commission proposed yesterday (23 November) lengthening the period of time its own former leaders must wait before taking up new jobs, following public uproar over its last president going to work for Goldman Sachs.

EU-Canada Sign Long-delayed Trade Deal

The European Union and Canada signed a long-delayed landmark free trade agreement Sunday in Brussels aimed to boost growth and jobs.

German "Value Courses" : Austria Proposes 'One Euro Jobs' Scheme for Refugees

Austria’s foreign minister plans to introduce an integration proposal, including “one euro jobs” for migrants and refugees.

Switzerland rejects guaranteed income proposal in national referendum

The Swiss appear to have voted down a plan for the government to pay citizens a guaranteed income whether or not they are employed.

The proposal would have forced the government to pay each citizen the equivalent of nearly 1,800 euros, or about $2,045, each month.

Brazil loses 1.5 million jobs in 2015

Brazil saw 1.5 million net dismissals in 2015, far worse than the previous year when it created 420,000 formal jobs amid economic difficulties.

Thousands of jobs in Slovakia could be threaten by border controls

Even though a terrorist attack in Slovakia isn't very likely to happen, the indirect economic consequences connected to stricter conditions around the world due to terrorist threats might become a very negative factor, Sberbank Europe chief analyst Vladimir Vano said on Thursday.

Ban to employ Turkish workers not to affect Russia’s job market

A ban to employ Turkish nationals will have no influence on Russia’s job market as they might be replaced by Russians residing in the regions along with citizens from former Soviet republics, the deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma (parliamentary lower house), Andrey Isayev, has told TASS.

India launches first space observatory

India successfully launched Monday its first high-tech telescopes into space to study the stars, as New Delhi seeks to take another major step in its ambitious and low-cost space programme.

European Commission Plans $980 Mln Investment in Greece by 2020

18 new EU investment programs to help Greece out of a financial crisis by creating jobs and other opportunities for economic development have been approved by the European Commission, Monday's press release by the Commission states.

MEPs split over EU free trade deal with Canada (EP)

Hopes and fears for the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which has been negotiated but still needs Parliament’s backing to enter into force, were aired in a debate with EU trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht on Tuesday.

EU trade negotiators’ achievements in securing access to the Canadian public procurement market and protecting 145 EU geographical indication marks were.warmly welcomed by MEPs. Many stressed the need to win access to new markets for EU firms so as to offset their loss of business with Russia.

Slovakia could lose thousands of jobs if Russia takes further counter-sanction (Robert Fico)

If Russia were to respond to the third round of the European Union's sanctions by banning car imports from Europe, 7,000 to 10,000 people could lose their jobs in Slovakia, warned Prime Minister Robert Fico during a televised political debate on Sunday.

Fico said the "sanctions' war" not only fails to address the problem, but it also produces more and more tension on both sides of the conflict.

EU Producers Falsely Mark Products to Bypass Russian Ban. Under the guise of being produced in countries such as FYROM, Serbia, Algeria, Zimbabwe, Turkey etc (Rosselkhoznadzor)

MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - Attempts to import embargoed European products to Russia are on the rise, a spokesman for Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s agricultural watchdog, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
Attempts to import banned European food are on the rise, as EU manufacturers attempt to claim their products are produced in countries not affected by the ban, Alexei Alexeyenko, assistant to the head of Rosselkhoznadzor, said.
Products said to be made in countries outside the European Union have turned out to have only EU phytosanitary certificates, Alexeyenko said, noting that Rosselkhoznadzor believes them to be falsely marked to avoid the import ban.

EU farmers complain €125mn compensation is just drop in the ocean

The €125 million in emergency EU support to its food producers may not be enough to cover the damage, as some estimates have it more than a hundred times higher.
On Monday, the European Commission announced €125 million in emergency funding for European farmers hit by the Russian trade ban
Economists at ING estimate the embargo could cost the European Union €6.7 billion ($9 billion) during a year of lost production. The report also sees 130,000 jobs at risk in the trade row between Russia and the West over Ukraine.
The European statistics office, Eurostat, said the ban - which bars meat, dairy, cheese, fruit and vegetables from all 28 EU member states, affects €12 billion ($16 billion) worth of EU exports, or 10 percent of the total.

Turkey may woo Greek doctors to fill vacancies. (Health Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu)

Turkey is considering employing foreign doctors in order to fill vacancies in public hospitals, with Greek professionals being one of their main targets, Health Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has said.

“We are thinking of employing doctors from Greece and other countries, who we believe would fulfill the needs of our people and who will be accredited by YÖK [the Turkish Higher Education Board] after the related legal regulations have been made,” Müezzinoğlu told journalists during an Eid al-Fitr visit to an Istanbul hospital on July 29.

“We [Turkey] have been increasing the capacity of our medical faculties since 2007, but such efforts will only start yielding results this year,” Müezzinoğlu added.