{"id":434902,"date":"2025-09-05T16:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/09\/05\/italia-nel-secondo-trimestre-frenano-crescita-e-occupazione\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:39:52","slug":"italys-growth-and-employment-contract-in-the-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/09\/05\/italys-growth-and-employment-contract-in-the-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy’s growth and employment contract in the second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Bad news for the Meloni government: in the second quarter of the year, both growth and employment recorded a “minus sign,”<\/strong> marking a deterioration compared with the first three months of 2025. Eurostat data released today (5 September) show an unfavourable period for the Italian economy in particular. While at a general level the Gross Domestic Product of the EU and Eurozone registers a timid rise (+0.2 percent and +0.1 percent, respectively) compared to the first quarter, in the reporting period, “declines were observed in Finland (-0.4 percent), Germany (-0.3 percent), and Italy (-0.1 percent),” the European Statistical Institute<\/a> noted.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The economy is slowing after two quarters of consecutive growth<\/strong>. Compared to zero growth in Q3 2024, the government could boast +0.2 percent at the end of Q4 2024 and +0.3 percent at the end of the first three months of 2025. Now, however, the figure shows an economy that is once again in trouble and struggling. <\/p>\n

It does not get any better on the employment front<\/strong>: again, Italy and its labour market are among those recording a negative trend at the end of the second quarter. The situation is broadly stable, with a very slight increase in employment rates in Europe as a whole (+0.1 percent compared to January-March 2025) and the single currency area (+0.1 percent). However, Italy is bucking the trend and below average, with a contraction, albeit slight (-0.1 percent).<\/p>\n

 Not good news, therefore, for the government, which is called upon to take stock of this data and to take corrective action and secure the national economic-productive fabric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurostat confirms a contraction in Italy for both items. Not good news for the government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":434892,"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":[26180,25881,28780,31425,26105,26633,26444],"class_list":["post-434902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-employment-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-dati-eurostat-en","tag-pills","tag-work-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434902","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434903,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434902\/revisions\/434903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}