Germany’s ICT labour market is facing challenges, study finds
Germany‘s information and communication technology (ICT) labour market is facing a combination of short-term economic pressures and long-term structural change,…
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Sweden’s GDP contracted by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2026
The Swedish economy saw a slight contraction, of 0.2%, in the first quarter this year, compared to the previous quarter,…
Full-time employees in Germany worked an average of 39.9 hours per week in 2025
New data from Germany‘s federal statistics office (Destatis) has shown that full-time employees worked an average of 39.9 hours per…
Employment in Sweden increased to 69.4% in the first quarter of 2026
Employment in Sweden rose for the second consecutive quarter in the first three months of 2026, while unemployment declined, according…
The number of people employed in Croatia increased by 1.1% in 2025
There were 1.7 million people employed in Croatia in 2025, a 1.1% increase on the previous year, according to the…
Italy labour market remains stable in Q4 2025, with hours worked up 1.6% year-on-year
Italy’s labour market remained broadly stable in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to Istat, the country’s statistics body, with…
Germany’s labour market weakened in December 2025
Germany‘s labour market continued to weaken as 2025 drew to a close, with December seeing the highest December unemployment level…
What EU country saw the biggest increase in employment rate in Q3 2025?
Malta reported the biggest increase in employment rate in the European Union in the third quarter of this year, with…
National plan needed to boost Spain’s productivity and address unemployment
Ignacio González, president of the Spanish Association of Manufacturers and Distributors (AECOC), has called on the country’s government to adopt…
70% of Danish metalwork firms failing to upskill their workers
Some 70% of Danish companies in the metalwork trade have no plans to train up their unskilled employees, leading to…