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In September, 2014, the unemployment rate in Belgium was 2.5% lower than in the same month last year, according to figures from the National Employment Office (NEO).
As of January 1, 2015, exactly 5,315 people in the Brussels-Capital Region will lose their right to unemployment benefits.
About one-fifth of the population of Brussels is made up of unemployed job-seekers.
If Belgium strictly adheres to the budget trajectory that the European Union is demanding, some 47,000 jobs will go by the wayside by 2017, according to estimates by the Federal Planning Bureau, r
Youth unemployment in Brussels fell by 9% compared to one year ago, and is now at its lowest level in 20 years.
Secondary school graduates who admit to delinquency in their past when applying for jobs see their chances of success sharply diminished, according to research from the Ghent University.
Be it your decision or your employers, your current working relationship is coming to an end.
The unemployment rate in Brussels climbed to 20.6% at the end of April 2014, compared to 20.1% a year earlier, according to figures from Brussels employment office, Actiris.
Latest employment figures released Monday reveal that up to 50 percent of young people in some neighbourhoods in Brussels are without a job. The news has city officials calling for action.
