{"id":423981,"date":"2025-04-10T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/04\/10\/ue-2025-salario-minimo-eccezioni-italia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:03:53","slug":"eu-22-states-have-a-minimum-wage-in-2025-italy-still-among-the-exceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/04\/10\/eu-22-states-have-a-minimum-wage-in-2025-italy-still-among-the-exceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"EU: 22 states have a minimum wage in 2025. Italy still among the exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Minimum wage: a rule for many but not quite for all. Everyone does what one\u00a0sees fit as it falls exclusively under national competence. So, the\u00a0newly published Eurostat data is\u00a0not surprising &#8212; it is\u00a0simply\u00a0an update of a long-standing\u00a0situation\u00a0that has not\u00a0changed much. Between Jan. 1, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2025, what changes is the increase in the number of member states to legally provide for a minimum wage, from 21 to 22 countries. <strong>Compared with five years ago, Cyprus introduced a legally guaranteed paycheck, leaving Italy, Austria, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden as the exceptions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/22586893\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/22586893\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"map visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Calculated differently and tied to the cost of living in each\u00a0country, the minimum wage varies in terms of its real\u00a0purchasing power. Thus, practically <strong>half of the member states &#8212; 10 out of 22 &#8212; provide a minimum salary\u00a0of\u00a0less than a thousand euros<\/strong>. This is the case in <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Bulgaria (the equivalent of 551 euros), Hungary (the equivalent of 707 euros), Latvia (740 euros), Romania (the equivalent of 814 euros), Slovakia (816 euros), Czech Republic (the equivalent of 826 euros), Estonia (886 euros), Malta (961 euros), Greece (968 euros), and Croatia (970 euros).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>In six other EU member states, it\u00a0ranges\u00a0from 1,000 to 1,500 euros per month<\/strong>. This is the case in Cyprus (1,000 euros), Portugal (1,015 euros), Lithuania (1,038 euros), Poland (the equivalent of 1,091 euros), Slovenia (1,278 euros), and Spain (1,381 euros). In the remaining <strong>six states, on the other hand, the minimum wage is higher than 1,500 and even exceeds the two-thousand euro threshold<\/strong>. It is the case\u00a0in France (1,802 euros), Belgium (2,070 euros), Germany (2,161 euros), the Netherlands (2,193 euros), Ireland (2,282 euros), and Luxembourg (2,638 euros).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The data also show a decrease in the wage differential.\u00a0In 2020, Luxembourg&#8217;s minimum wage &#8212; the highest of all &#8212; was seven times that of Bulgaria, the lowest, but it is now just under five times (4.8 times, <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/en\/web\/main\/about-us\/who-we-are\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Statistical Institute<\/a> points out).<\/p>\n<p>The updated figures and situation revive the political debate, particularly in Italy. &#8220;This government must wake up.\u00a0Otherwise, young Italians will only be able to emigrate to find a fair and equitable wage,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Pasquale Tridico<\/strong>, head of the 5 Star Movement delegation to the European Parliament. The &#8216;brain drain&#8217; issue is not new, and it also has to do with the minimum wage issue.\u00a0Work is underway at a European level, but a push is also needed in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Eurostat data published today show that Italian workers are discriminated against compared to their European colleagues,&#8221; the M5S MEP added. &#8220;Minister Calderone must explain how it is possible that in Italy as many as 5.7 million employees receive less than 850 euros net per month, a figure that rises to 7.7 million workers if the income received is less than 1,200 euros,&#8221; Tridico said. This is to emphasize\u00a0that &#8220;<strong>starvation wages are one of the main plagues of our country<\/strong>,\u00a0a shame\u00a0towards which the government and the majority show indifference.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurostat takes a snapshot of the new situation. Compared to 2020, one more country, Cyprus, introduced the minimum wage. 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