The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.2% by 0718 GMT, after closing out its best quarterly gains since March 2015 in the previous session.

Rising unemployment will intensify pressure on governments and central banks to speed up reforms.

He listed recent recessions, youth unemployment, refugees, and wars in the Middle East and Ukraine as events that raised fears in Europe.

Eurozone unemployment stands above 11%, and even passes 13% when excluding Germany. Meanwhile, Germany's rate is less than half of that, at...

Italy's relentless downturn is fuelling criticism of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, whose efforts to rekindle growth have led to clashes with...

Stealth integration will have big costs. Adherence to austerity policies could mire the peripheral nations in recession.

Unemployment data typically lags other indicators of economic health as companies hold off adding staff in the early stages of a rebound. T...

German unemployment fell in September, official data showed on Wednesday, but without signalling a general improvement for the biggest Euro...

Germany's unemployment rate edged up to 8.3 per cent in August, government figures showed Tuesday _ the last set of jobs data before an ele...

The jobless rate in the 16 nations that use the euro climbed to a new 10-year high of 9.5 per cent in July despite other signs that the eco...

German Labour Minister Olaf Scholz expects unemployment to keep rising in the coming months but believes it will stay below four million, a...

Unemployment in Germany fell in November, data showed on Thursday, but the government warned that the economic slowdown would soon be putti...

German retail sales probably edged higher in May and unemployment likely fell slightly in June, but growth in the manufacturing and service...

The German retailers' association HDE voiced optimism Thursday that sector sales would grow by two percent this year and that price increas...

At the European Level, a “blue card” based on the US “green card” model is being developed to attract skilled workers. Learning from mistak...

Many European countries are stimulating immigration of qualified people and taking other steps to meet similar shortages. Foreign stint sho...

The German economy will continue to grow despite problems stemming from the US subprime crisis, the central bank said Monday amid concern t...