ERM Quarterly - Quarter 1, April 2014

According to the most recent European economic forecast from the European Commission’s DG-ECFIN, the recovery is broadening, as some measure of modest growth returns to the majority of Member States. DG-ECFIN also points to growing internal consumer demand as the driver of recent growth ‘reducing the dependency of the recovery on the external sector’. This first issue for 2014 includes: Macroeconomic trends and prospects; Job creation and job loss at a glance (1/1/14 - 31/3/14); Sectoral distribution of job losses/job gains, and top five cases; National collective redundancy provisions; Sector in focus: Steep jobs decline in German PV industry; Sector in focus: More jobs losses in financial sector.