This 3rd edition of FEANTSA’s Employability and Homelessness newsletter is available online. It features more interesting employability initiatives for people experiencing homelessness and information resources related o this topic.

ENAR has issued the latest edition of its newsletter ENARgy, which focuses on the theme ‘The situation of the Roma in Europe: challenges and ways forward’. It offers a by no means exhaustive sampling of a range of issues and perspectives on the situation of the Roma community in Euope, including Roma civil society’s assessment of EU actions in relation to the Roma and the Spanish Presidency’s priorities in thi area. Read more.

According to Eurostat statistics published on March 1st the seasonally corrected unemployment rate lay at 9.9% in January in the euro area unchanged in comparison with December 2009. It lay at 8.5% in January 2009...

This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language ‐ English or French ‐ with a summary in the other. You can find the full list of working papers here.

2010 will also see a restructured MISSOC table XI on Guaranteeing Minimum Resources. Table XI is one of the youngest MISSOC Tables, together with Table XII on Long‐term care. After the restructuring of the latter Table in 2009, it was the only Table that had not yet undergone a reform and modernisation exercise, notably thanks to EAPN’s response to it...