{"id":464754,"date":"2026-09-11T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/11\/eurostat-leggera-crescita-delloccupazione-nellue-nel-secondo-trimestre\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:47:52","slug":"eurostat-slight-rise-in-eu-employment-in-the-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/11\/eurostat-slight-rise-in-eu-employment-in-the-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurostat: slight rise in EU employment in the second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Slight rise in employment in\u00a0Europe:\u00a0In the second quarter of 2026, the employment rate for people aged between 20 and 64 in the EU stood at 76.4 per cent, up from 76.3 per cent in the first quarter of the year,\u00a0 according to data released by Eurostat<\/a><\/strong>, the European Union\u2019s statistical office.<\/p>\n

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Labour market slack, all persons with an unmet need for employment, including unemployed persons,\u00a0stood at 11 per cent of the extended labour force aged 20\u201364 in the second quarter, unchanged from the first.<\/p>\n

Between the first and second quarters of 2026, Portugal and Malta (up 0.6 percentage points each), Greece (+0.5 percentage points) and Latvia and Slovenia (each +0.4 percentage points) recorded the largest increases in the employment rate amongst the 14 EU countries where employment rose. Italy saw a\u00a00.2 percentage point rise, alongside Croatia, Spain and Estonia, in the second quarter compared with the first<\/strong>. The employment rate remained stable in four\u00a0EU countries and fell in nine; the sharpest falls were recorded in Austria (-0.4 percentage points) and in Lithuania and Sweden (-0.3 percentage points, each).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Slight rise in employment in\u00a0Europe:\u00a0In the second quarter of 2026, the employment rate for people aged between 20 and 64 in the EU stood at 76.4 per cent, up from 76.3 per cent in the first quarter of the year,\u00a0 according to data released by Eurostat, the European Union\u2019s statistical office. Labour market […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[25705,25774],"tags":[28780,31425,34471,33394,26444],"class_list":["post-464754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-in-brief","tag-employment-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-tasso","tag-ue","tag-work-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464754","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464791,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464754\/revisions\/464791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}