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Amazon adds over 90,000 jobs in high-unemployment areas across Europe: Report
ETHRWorld EMEA
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June 4, 2025
Amazon’s latest impact report reveals it contributed over €41 billion to Europe’s GDP in 2024, including €29 billion to the EU27, while ramping up its focus on workforce development and local hiring in regions with high unemployment. The company...
'Slap in the face': Applicants blast Germany's plan to scrap citizenship reform
The Local - Germany
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June 4, 2025
Germany's newly tightened immigration policies includes the scrapping of a fast-track path to becoming a German citizen - only a year after the reform was rolled out. Would-be applicants and an immigration expert have criticised the change....
Thousands could receive back payments from their employer - see if you are eligible
Cambridge News
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June 4, 2025
The UK Government says that employees short-changed by their employers will be compensated with arrears payments in a fresh initiative to Make Work Pay. This comes after a substantial increase to the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage...
Underpaid employees could receive wage back payments
Devon Live
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June 4, 2025
Linda Howard Money and Consumer Writer and Lauren Haughey Lifestyle and Money Reporter 13:33, 04 Jun 2025Updated 13:33, 04 Jun 2025 The UK Government says employees short-changed by their employers will be compensated with arrears payments in a...
Blueprints on the border: Germany’s Lithuania deployment may be Europe’s new template
European Council on Foreign Relations
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June 4, 2025
Vilnius’s Cathedral Square provided the stage for a historic event on May 22: the activation ceremony of Armoured Brigade 45, Germany’s first permanent deployment abroad of a combat unit of such size since the Federal Republic’s founding in 1949....
U.S. adds just 37,000 private sector jobs in May 2025 — ADP report stuns as Trump calls on Fed to slash rates
The Economic Times
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June 4, 2025
Private sector job growth slows sharply in May 2025, just 37,000 jobs added as hiring momentum fades- The U.S. private sector added only 37,000 jobs in May 2025, marking the lowest monthly gain in more than two years, according to fresh data...
eDreams ODIGEO Expands with 150 New Jobs in Europe
FTN News
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June 4, 2025
eDreams ODIGEO expands with 150 new jobs in Europe as part of its ongoing growth strategy and its mission to scale the world’s first and largest travel subscription platform, Prime. The announcement comes at a high point for the company, following...
Could the resurgence of Germany’s steel industry help to revive its economy?
Euronews
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After US President Donald Trump announced last week that he would double steel and aluminium tariffs from 25 to 50%, the European Commission said it was prepared to impose retaliatory measures. Germany, one of the world's largest export economies...
Private sector added just 37,000 jobs in May, lowest in over 2 years, ADP says
FOX Business
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First Trust Advisors chief economist Brian Wesbury discusses the chances of a recession hitting the US economy in 2025 on 'Making Money.' Companies in the private sector added just 37,000 jobs in May, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday....
Private-sector firms added just 37,000 jobs in May, the lowest total in more than two years
CNN
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June 4, 2025
CNN — High economic uncertainy has hiring grinding to a halt at US businesses. Job growth slowed for the second month in a row at private-sector firms, which added just 37,000 jobs in May, according to new employment estimates released Wednesday...
US Private Sector Hiring Slows The Most In 2 Years: 'Powell Must Now Lower The Rate,' Trump Says
Benzinga
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Clear signs of a slowing labor market echoed through Wall Street on Wednesday, after private-sector job growth plunged to a more than two-year low, stoking investor concerns that trade headwinds are starting to bite while fueling President Donald...
Commission provides guidance to Member States to boost EU competitiveness
European Commission
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June 4, 2025
The Commission has presented the 2025 European Semester spring package, analysing the main economic and social challenges across the EU. It has provided EU countries with guidance to strengthen their competitiveness, prosperity and resilience. The...
Can New Laws Tip Europe Into A Repair Society?
Forbes
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New laws are coming in Europe--some as soon as June 2025-- requiring products like smart phones to household goods to be designed to repairable backed with incentives for consumers, but will they go far enough? At a well-lit table in a church hall...
‘Silence is complicity’: Unions defy Pride bans and demand EU action
HSI
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In brief: The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has vowed to march in the banned Budapest Pride on 28 June, urging the European Commission to publicly support LGBTIQ rights. This decision has come amid reports that European Commissioners...
Armenia`s ambition to further deepen partnership with European Union and its European partners - RA MFA
Arminfo
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ArmInfo. On 3 June, during a regional visit to the South Caucasus, the Nordic-Baltic Political Directors and representatives held meetings with the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan, Foreign...
EXPOSED: The three bills Labour is pushing into law which are sparking a battle over free speech in Britain
GB News
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June 4, 2025
Alarm bells have been raised over three bills Labour is currently pushing through Parliament. Despite insisting that it's "committed to freedom of speech and academic freedom", Keir Starmer's Government has been dogged by accusations that it's...
Trump Urges Fed To Cut Rates After Weak ADP Job Growth Report: Live Updates
Newsweek
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June 4, 2025
Stock futures tracking the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Dow Jones fell slightly Monday after the ADP report showed private-sector job growth slowed significantly in May. The data revealed the smallest increase in hiring since March 2023, with just...
Gold Price Falls as US Dollar Strengthens Ahead of Jobs Report
Investing
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June 4, 2025
Gold Pulls Back as US Dollar Strengthens The gold price (XAU/USD) fell by 0.83% on Tuesday, retreating from a nearly four-week high as the US dollar (USD) strengthened. "It’s hard to know what’s really driving things today", said Chuck Carlson,...
Halkidiki suffers from grave tourism staff shortages
Kathimerini
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A local survey in Halkidiki, the Balkans’ favorite tourism destination, has shown that nearly two out of every five businesses in the sector are still looking for staff, with the 2025 summer season well underway. At the same time, more than seven...
This famous Indian brand reaches Spain, plans to launch in Germany, Italy and...; not owned by Mukesh Ambani, Adani
DNA India
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The official launch took place at the Embassy of India, Madrid in the presence of Dinesh K Patnaik, Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Spain, D. Fernando Heredia Noguera, Deputy Director for International Relations and Community Affairs....