A third of European workers are "very concerned" that they could lose their jobs as the economy experiences the worst recession since the Second World War, according to a European Commission survey published Friday.



Some 32 percent of people with jobs said they feared losing work. More were worried about their partner and nearly half feared that their children would lose their jobs.

European unemployment rates are running at record levels and economists believe many more jobs will yet disappear as companies cut costs to adjust to lower demand and weaker exports. The EU executive forecasts that some 8.5 million jobs will go this year and next year.

Younger workers are suffering more with unemployment running at nearly one in five.

EU spokeswoman Katharina von Schnurbein said many Europeans believe the worst of the recession is still to come. Only 28 percent think the downturn has already peaked.

"People in labor markets that are harder hit are slightly more realistic or less optimistic," she said.

Spaniards were most worried about losing their job or about relatives losing theirs. Spain, which has been badly hurt by the collapse of a housing boom and a slump in tourism, now has the highest jobless rate in the EU, at 17.9 percent in the second quarter.

Von Schnurbein said people in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania -- three Baltic nations where the economy has contracted sharply over the last year -- were most likely to think that the economy could still worsen.

The survey interviewed some 27,000 people face-to-face in all 27 EU nations between May 25 and June 17. It has a margin of error ranging from 1.9 to 3.1 percentage points.


http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-182041-a-third-of-europeans-fear-job-loss.html

thanks bro, this news made my day!

The UK and soon eu countries will chose polish, east euro, etc workers for cheap labour, the poor french pricks will stay jobless.

**** blue, **** white, **** red, **** france

and what is more funny kemalist dont like zaman lol

last time i checked germany has only half as many unemployed as turkey, and if you count out all the turks from german statistics we dont have any notable unemployment








Napoleon auf St. Helena: "Hätte der Himmel gewollt, dass ich als deutscher Fürst geboren wäre und hätten Sie mich einmal zu Ihrem Kaiser gewählt und ausgerufen so scheint mir noch Heute, dass Sie nie von mir abgefallen wären und ich Heute nicht hier sitzen müsste."

Germans lament post-Communism decline

A metallic smell, and a jagged collection of thin towers and convoluted silver pipe work mark out the PCK oil refinery.

It is a vast site which stretches for several kilometres near the eastern German town of Schwedt.

White jets of steam fizz from the pipes. It is an impressive sight, a hymn to industrial architecture built on the border with Poland.

Every year, 12 million tonnes of Russian crude oil are processed here, into diesel, jet fuel and petrol - a tenth of the oil refined in Germany.

But this business also has a human story to tell, of the extraordinary jolting change that happened in the eastern part of Germany after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

'Its own world'

Twenty years ago, the then East German government owned PCK, which stands for Petrolchemisches Kombinat Schwedt.

It was, in the words of the current chief executive Klaus Niemann, "a state within a state".

The workforce numbered 9,000. Their children went to kindergartens run by the refinery.

There were 25 kitchens and canteens. The refinery owned a farm, and raised its own pigs.

It had its own laboratories and a research facility with 800 researchers. A lack of foreign exchange meant everything had to be made on site by engineering workshops, even screws.

PCK was the centre of life in Schwedt. It even had its own newspaper, staffed by six people.

One of them was Roswitha Floeter, who likes to brew up a pot of English tea in her comfortable office. She is small, wiry, and after 35 years with PCK, intensely loyal.

"I love this refinery," she confides, praising its "modern spirit" and high standards.

But she remembers the time of greatest change, after the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. PCK was privatised in 1991; nowadays it is owned by several big oil companies.

The bloated inefficiencies of the Soviet era were ironed out, with a series of savage job cuts.

"Oh, it was a terrible time," she muses, "not good for the soul".

She was relieved to be told she would be kept on in a new public relations job. Others were less lucky.

The numbers employed dropped like a stone, from 9,000 in 1989 to 1,200 today.

Dr Niemann estimates that of those who lost their jobs, one third managed to find employment in the surrounding area, but two thirds decided to move to west Germany.

Wages are about 10% lower in Schwedt than in the west, and unemployment rates are still much higher, at somewhere between 20 and 25%.

In small villages, Dr Niemann says half the population may be living on state benefits.

Staff shortages

Asked how well the refinery business is doing, Dr Niemann chuckles wryly. "It's been better," he admits, but points out that three million inhabitants of Berlin buy the refinery's petrol and diesel products, so business is "okay".

It seems this area of east Germany has not been as badly hit by recession as parts of south-western Germany which produce exports, especially in the motor industry.

The older generation of PCK workers, often Russian-speakers who trained in Azerbaijan or Ukraine, will be coming up for retirement soon.

The worst problem, according to Mr Niemann, is that it's hard to attract young engineers to such a rural area. And locals are still leaving for the bright lights of big cities in the west and beyond.

At the Carl Friedrich Gauss secondary school in Schwedt, there's little appetite for staying from a classful of students studying English.

A random sample of bright and bouncy 17 to 19-year-olds outline their plans excitedly; they include emigration to the UK, and university courses in computer science and Japanese.

Only one teenager wants to become a teacher and stay in Schwedt, to be with his family.

Do any of them want to work at the refinery? No hands go up.

One boy says he does not want to be told what to do at PCK.

A girl explains that many of her family have been employees, including both her parents and her grandmother.

"They tell me it's not good to work there," she says. "It's hard work and you can't earn enough money."

Back at PCK, there are still traces of the Communist past to be seen.

There is a collection of Soviet-era art in the office buildings, and a sculpture of a brawny muscled worker still stares out bravely beside a blue-painted shed.

Veteran employee Ms Floeter worries about the future of Schwedt.

"Our aim is," she says "that our young people should stay in school here, find jobs and not go to other regions."

She shakes her head and purses her lips. "We have so much to do."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8171116.stm

Uniting with Slavic peasants aka East Germany was a big mistake.


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Greek Resistance

Its an insult to be Slavic?

Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind usimmensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."


"As a Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

"Its an insult to be Slavic?"

Thats a usual insult underneath turks(mongols) LOL!







Napoleon auf St. Helena: "Hätte der Himmel gewollt, dass ich als deutscher Fürst geboren wäre und hätten Sie mich einmal zu Ihrem Kaiser gewählt und ausgerufen so scheint mir noch Heute, dass Sie nie von mir abgefallen wären und ich Heute nicht hier sitzen müsste."

Its an insult to be Slavic?

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Being Slavic is fine but being Russian-German mongrels like East Germans could be considered an insult.

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Greek Resistance

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there aint no east germans, they have been expelled from their lands after ww2







Napoleon auf St. Helena: "Hätte der Himmel gewollt, dass ich als deutscher Fürst geboren wäre und hätten Sie mich einmal zu Ihrem Kaiser gewählt und ausgerufen so scheint mir noch Heute, dass Sie nie von mir abgefallen wären und ich Heute nicht hier sitzen müsste."

"there aint no east germans"





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since when mogrels beleive they entitle an oppinion over european matters?

its up to us who hold european citizenship and passports.

germany has unbloyment?


lets see 6 million unbloyed -3 millions unemployed orks.


kick them out of europe problem solved.



turkish unebloyment

officially 15%
unofficially close to 20%

if women workforce that aren't employed and aren't included unemployment in orkistan skyrockets to 50-60%


eligible to work person in turkiye are 50 million people.
yet employed people are merely 21 millions.

whats wrong with that picture?

unspecify nirvana fan:"A word of advice, a man should be waxing his chest period "

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Thats a usual insult underneath turks(mongols) LOL!

Well, you East Germans still haven't learnt have you?

they have been expelled from their lands after ww2

What was left of them were raped by the Soviets. Oh well, maybe you learnt that being racists doesn't get you anywhere.

Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind usimmensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."


"As a Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

"What was left of them were raped by the Soviets."

Poles were also part of the battle and occupation of Berlin....

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Many Poles were raped by Soviets too. But yes, I don't doubt many Polish soldiers raped some Germans, I suppose what goes around comes around.

Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind usimmensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."


"As a Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

Nonsense, Poles were just as guilty of using rape as vendetta as the untrained Soviet battalions. Majority of them were caused by new conscripts, and by '45 Polish forces were pretty much only that. The Poles joined up the Ukrainian front and did whatever they wanted in Berlin due to the chaos during and after the battle.

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Its nonsense that Poles got raped by Soviets or that many Poles conducted rapes as well?

Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind usimmensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."


"As a Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

poles also fought for the wehrmacht in masses, they also raped the russians, later the poles raped the germans

i think the polish men were the biggest winners of the war LOL!






Napoleon auf St. Helena: "Hätte der Himmel gewollt, dass ich als deutscher Fürst geboren wäre und hätten Sie mich einmal zu Ihrem Kaiser gewählt und ausgerufen so scheint mir noch Heute, dass Sie nie von mir abgefallen wären und ich Heute nicht hier sitzen müsste."