EU Jobs Alert is an independent aggregator of vacancies at the European Commission, the Parliament, the Council and roughly 90 EU agencies and bodies. The site is run by one editor — Romain Eude — and the policies on this page describe the rules he follows when adding listings, writing guides, and answering reader email.
1. Sourcing
Every job posting on EU Jobs Alert comes from an official EU portal. The primary sources are the EU Careers (EPSO) site at eu-careers.europa.eu and the careers pages of individual agencies (EUIPO, EBA, ECDC, EASA and the rest). We never accept paid placements, recruiter listings, or jobs submitted by third parties. If a vacancy is not on an official EU portal, it does not appear on the site.
Listings are refreshed daily by an automated scraper. Each entry stores the source URL so any reader can verify it. We do not modify the title, description, deadline, or institution name from the source — we only normalise the formatting (grade codes, location names, contract types) so filtering works across institutions.
2. Salary methodology
Salary figures are computed from the EU Staff Regulations (Annex I) and the country correction coefficients published by the European Commission. We display the gross monthly basic salary for the grade and step shown on the official posting; where a posting omits the step, we show the band from step 1 to step 5. Net figures, when shown, deduct the EU community tax, pension contribution, and sickness scheme contribution at the rates in force on the date of the latest update.
We do not include household allowance, expatriation allowance, or dependent-child allowances in the headline figure because those depend on personal circumstances. The salary calculator at /guide/salary-calculator/ lets readers add those manually. When the EU updates Annex I (typically once a year), every grade page is regenerated against the new tables on the same day the regulation enters into force.
3. Editorial workflow
Guides and explainers are written by Romain Eude. Drafts are checked against three things before publishing: the relevant Staff Regulations article, the EPSO public guidance, and at least one independent source — a recent court ruling, a trade-union briefing, or a published interview with EU staff. Every guide carries a "Last reviewed" date in the footer. When a regulation, salary table, or EPSO process changes, the affected guides are re-read end-to-end and the review date is bumped.
We do not use generated text as final copy. AI tools are sometimes used for outline drafts and for grammar checks, but every paragraph that ships to readers has been read and edited by a human. We do not republish press releases verbatim.
4. Corrections
If a job listing on EU Jobs Alert is wrong — wrong deadline, wrong grade, wrong location, or the role has been withdrawn — email [email protected] with the URL and the correction. Verified corrections are applied within 48 hours. If the source posting on the official portal is itself wrong, we can only flag the discrepancy on our side; the canonical record stays with the institution.
Substantive errors in guides (a wrong salary figure, a misquoted rule) are corrected in place and noted at the bottom of the page with the date of the change. Trivial fixes (typos, broken links) are corrected silently. We do not delete published pages; if a guide becomes obsolete, it is marked as such and points to the replacement.
5. Ethics and independence
EU Jobs Alert is not affiliated with the European Union, EPSO, or any of the institutions or agencies it covers. We do not receive funding from them. The site runs on advertising and on a small premium subscription. Advertisers do not see editorial copy before publication and have no influence on which jobs appear or how guides are written. Affiliate links are not used.
Reader email is private. We do not share the content of contact-form messages, and we do not re-publish reader stories without explicit permission and a chance to review the quote. Personal data collected through accounts and newsletter subscriptions is handled per the privacy policy; no data is sold.