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The purpose of this study is to present the main tendencies taking place on the labour and capital markets in the period of crisis, in selected EU states. The first part presents tendencies observed on the labour market in the recent years in individual EU states. However, the comparative analysis mostly focuses on the level of unemployment. After that follows a synthetic presentation of the strategy "Europe 2020" in the context of joint activities undertaken by the Member States, aimed at combating the crisis and implementation of reforms to enable recovery of the EU economy. The second part demonstrates characteristics of tendencies on the capital market in the recent years. Then the authors analyse major EU stock exchange indexes. The discussion ends with a synthetic summary of the conducted analysis.