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What European institutions are doing for job seekers and employment.

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EURES - The European Job Mobility Portal

From West to East

Workers' mobility is far from being an East to West one-way street. Many Scandinavians found their professional fortune in one of the new EU Member States.

Supporting mobility of women

The new online Women Mobility Portal informs female jobseekers on how to make better use of the European job market.

Know before you go

The Irish information campaign to promote and support labour mobility.

Cooperation across the sea – the Helsinki-Tallinn example

Following fifty years of separation by the Iron Curtain, the recent cooperation between the Estonian and Finnish capital regions is a story of increasing success. Not at last due to the mobile labour force.

“Europe will see an even more integrated labour market”

Commissioner Špidla on the successful European Year of Workers’ Mobility and his vision for the European labour market.

EURES Bodensee joins forces with staff executives

In a new approach to identify chances and obstacles on the European job market, EURES Bodensee initiated a first meeting with staff executives of the Lake Constance region.

The new stakes of temporary work

Interim employment has become a recognised element on the European job market. More and more Europeans have chosen to - or are forced to - make use of this rather new form of occupation.

Managing Mobility Matters 2006

A brand new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers reveals that with the exception of the Nordic countries, Ireland and the UK, mobility remains disappointingly low.

Dancing into the future

Professional advice by EURES staff can change the sometimes disappointing experience of working abroad into a more satisfying one – as shown in the case of Gunars Peipins from Latvia.