A joint study by the Centre for European Economic Research shows that robots are helping us to buy more products as well as saving on labor costs.

Barack Obama has called for further progress on equal rights for women, including measures to tackle the gender pay gap, in a proclamation marking Women’s Equality Day in the US.

Since the fall of Communism, Romania has kept a relatively low international profile and is one of the EU’s poorest countries. But its capital city Bucharest, with its unique culture, history, education system, and infrastructure, shows signs of becoming Europe’s new tech hub.

Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, recommends raising the country’s retirement age to 69 by 2060, believing that otherwise Germany may struggle to honor its pension commitments.

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic party candidate in this year’s US presidential election, has promised significant immigration reform allowing for a pathway to legal status for some undocumented immigrants.

The CEOs of the largest public companies in the UK received an average pay increase of 10% last year, according to the latest report from the High Pay Centre think tank.

On the eve of International Youth Day, celebrated on August 12, the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat has published a report on being young in Europe today, which contains information on the employment and education status of young people in Europe.