#30 FEPS Talks: The great COVID strike on our jobs and lives
May 07, 2020•25 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Massimiliano Mascherini, Head of the Social Policy unit in Eurofound, analyses the results of the fresh research of the agency in a conversation with FEPS Secretary General László Andor. Eurofound just published the document “Living, working and COVID-19” that reflects the most immediate economic and social effects of the crisis:
The findings are devastating as they show the rapidly increasing levels of unemployment and risk of poverty in only six weeks and they preview that the impact of the outbreak will be even harder in the near future.
Once more, young people are more touched by the consequences and they are those who suffer more depression and loneliness. Southern Europeans have clearly felt the lack of E.U. solidarity, while it is the East where citizens have the lowest level of trust in their health systems.
The social consequences are already asymmetric and Mascherini affirms that the project of the European Union will only survive if citizens feel reassured by social protection, and if the EU can promote social investment and solidarity among member states.
