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Record high employment rate, regional disparities

Record high employment rate, regional disparities

In 2023, the EU’s employment rate stood at 75.3%, up 0.7 percentage points (pp) compared with 2022. This is the highest level in the entire available time series. Among the EU regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units ...

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12% of the EU's labour potential remains unexploited

12% of the EU's labour potential remains unexploited

In 2023, labour market slack accounted for 12.0% of the extended labour force, meaning that 27.1 million people aged 15 to 74 years in the EU were offering an unmatched supply of labour on the market, either because they were ...

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Tax hikes hinder gas price drop, raise electricity costs

Tax hikes hinder gas price drop, raise electricity costs

In the first half of 2024, average household electricity prices in the EU recorded a small rise compared with the second half of 2023, from €28.3 per 100 kWh to €28.9 per 100 kWh. Despite reductions in the cost of energy, supply and ...

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Micro & small businesses make up 99% of enterprises in the EU

Micro & small businesses make up 99% of enterprises in the EU

In 2022, the EU had 32.3 million enterprises, employing 160 million persons. Of that total, 99% were micro and small enterprises employing up to 49 persons. Micro and small enterprises employed 77.5 million persons, i.e. almost half ...

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More businesses opened than dissolved in the EU in 2022

More businesses opened than dissolved in the EU in 2022

In 2022, there was a total of over 32 million enterprises in the EU, 3.4 million new enterprises were born that year, and according to the preliminary data, 2.8 millionenterprise deaths were registered. The enterprise birth rate was ...

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Which countries are the biggest producers of pasta?

Which countries are the biggest producers of pasta?

In 2023, 6.2 million tonnes of pasta were produced in the EU, worth €8.9 billion. While the volume was comparable with 2022 (6.1 million tonnes), there was an increase of €1.1 billion in terms of value. Italy was by far the leading EU ...

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