{"id":426834,"date":"2025-05-15T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/15\/ue-pil-occupazione-eurostat\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:09:26","slug":"eu-gdp-and-employment-grow-with-signs-of-recovery-also-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/15\/eu-gdp-and-employment-grow-with-signs-of-recovery-also-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"EU GDP and employment grow with signs of recovery also from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – In the first quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.3 percent<\/strong>\u00a0in the Eurozone and the EU as a whole compared to the previous quarter, according to the flash estimate<\/a> published today (May 15) by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. The\u00a0data confirm a positive trend: in the fourth quarter of 2024, GDP had increased by 0.2 percent in the Eurozone and 0.4 in the EU. Germany, the\u00a0struggling economic engine, reversed course, recovering 0.2 percentage points <\/strong>of lost GDP in the previous quarter.<\/p>\n

The medium-term picture also remains positive: compared with the same quarter of the previous year, seasonally adjusted GDP in the first quarter of 2025 increased by 1.2 percent in the Eurozone and 1.4 percent in the EU<\/b>. Across the Atlantic,\u00a0GDP in the United States increased by 2.0 percent <\/strong>in the same period. However,\u00a0compared to the last quarter of 2024, in the first period after Donald Trump took office in the White House, the US economy saw a slight decline of 0.1 percent.<\/p>\n

GDP also grew in Italy<\/strong> in line with the EU average over the past three months (+0.3 percent compared to the previous quarter). However, when looking at the result compared to the first quarter of last year, the increase was at half the speed: while the EU’s GDP increased by 1.4 percent, Italy’s increased by 0.6 percent.\u00a0France (+0.8 percent) did better, and Spain\u00a0and Poland much better (+2.8 and +3.8 percent, respectively).<\/p>\n

In addition to GDP, employment also grew by 0.3 percent in the Eurozone and 0.2 in the EU<\/strong> compared to the previous quarter. While compared to a year ago, employment increased by 0.8 percent in the Eurozone and 0.6 percent in the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurostat estimates that in the first quarter of 2025, EU gross domestic product increased by 0.3 percent and employment by 0.2 percent from the previous quarter. Italy in line with the European average<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":228048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[25815,28172,28780,25828,31236],"class_list":["post-426834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-employment-en","tag-eurozone-en","tag-product-internal-gross-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426844,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426834\/revisions\/426844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}