The Covid-19 pandemic is estimated to have generated some 900,000 new unemployed persons in the first 3 months of the health crisis, a significant proportion of them among the so-called ‘frugal’ Member States, according to figures from the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on Thursday 2 July.
Based on Eurostat figures, trade unions note that 253,000 workers lost their jobs in May. Adding this to the 397,000 jobs in April and the 241,000 in March brings the number of job...