Press Release: 72% of Europeans have high expectations of the EU’s role to ease unemployment

A new survey published on 24 July, 2009, showed that 61% of Europeans think further impacts of the economic crisis on jobs are to be expected. A third of those in work were 'very concerned' that they may lose their jobs in the crisis, however 72% feel the EU has had a positive impact in creating new job opportunities and fighting unemployment, and a third were aware of the European Social Fund – the EU's main tool for investing in workers and keeping them in work.