Wednesday, June 23, 2021
About one in three or 33.4 per cent of working Cypriots received support from special schemes to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the second highest rate in the EU 27 and nearly double the EU 27 average of 1.5 per cent, Labour Minister Zeta...
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Friday, April 30, 2021
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Nine months after European leaders agreed the European Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of €672.5...
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Europe, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain
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Sunday, April 11, 2021
Experts say that such a policy, despite being well-intentioned, might further entrench existing gender norms that confine women to the house.
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America, Bolivia, Asia, India, Europe, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Sweden
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Thursday, June 4, 2020
The emergency caused by the coronavirus has had an uneven impact on Finnish society and different groups of people. Those who are already weak bear the greatest burden. The situation requires both immediate and long-term measures to maintain the...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Finland has announced a support package worth some 15 billion euros to try and support businesses and individuals as the economy enters a downturn.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Finland is switching up its parental leave laws, and this time, the government says they're putting children at the center. Finland's new family leave policy would give 164 "daily allowance days" to each parent, or about seven months, the country...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Finland's new government has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave, in a push to get fathers to spend more time with their children. Paid allowance will increase to a combined 14 months, which works out as 164 days per parent....
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Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Europe
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
BLOG: Any ‘just transition’ worth its name must square a circle along three dimensions: effective production, fair redistribution and political feasibility. The productive puzzle is about finding the most relevant technology for the transition to get...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
BLOG: For decades, political and economic policies have been built on the promise of helping people do better than the generations before them. But still today, in 2020, the opportunities we get in life remain largely dictated by the socio-economic...
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United States, China, India, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, America, Asia, Europe
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Sunday, December 8, 2019
BLOG: It wasn't the news that researchers wanted. Two years after Finland launched a basic-income trial in which nearly 2,000 unemployed residents were given a regular monthly stipend, many of the recipients remained jobless. The people...