At VoxBox Studios in the European Parliament, MEP Maria Walsh and Eurofound’s Barbara Gerstenberger mark International Women’s Day by analyzing gender equality data from 36,000 workers across 35 countries. They discuss the shift from industrial labor to modern challenges like burnout and technostress.
As policymakers, social partners and civil society prepare for the European Employment and Social Rights Forum in Brussels next week, a new episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast looks at latest results from Eurofound’s eighth Living and Working in the EU e-survey, and the actions that could be taken to respond to the social challenges that it highlights.
The generational housing crisis is the focus of the most recent episode of Eurofound Talks, as Mary McCaughey sits down with Marie Hyland, a lead author of the newly released report, Foundational challenges: The housing struggles of Europe’s youth.
Europeans are very concerned about extreme heat and other impacts of climate change like wildfires according to the results of a Europe-wide survey published today. It found that many citizens were also underprepared to deal with the increasing frequency and magnitude of heatwaves, flooding, or water shortages in their own homes.
Increasing economic divergence and a profound sense of precariousness permeate the European Union today, according to new results from Eurofound’s eighth Living and Working in the EU e-survey.
In an era where public trust is paramount, the latest episode of the Eurofound Talks looks at the mechanisms that keep the European Union transparent and fiscally responsible. Host Mary McCaughey sits down with Tony Murphy, President of the European Court of Auditors (ECA), to discuss the critical role of financial oversight in safeguarding the European project.
Young adults are disproportionately affected by soaring prices and rents, with average EU sale prices and rents increasing by 55.4% and 26.7% respectively since 2010, often far outpacing income growth. These averages mask even more severe problems in certain Member States, in larger cities and for younger cohorts according to Eurofound’s new report.
