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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 16 May 2025

Mark EU Diversity Month with equality insights

To celebrate EU Diversity Month 2025, we’ve prepared an insightful infographic that highlights key data on equality and inclusion in the EU.  Did you know that:  1 in 7 people in the EU is foreign-born?   there are 137 female students for every 100 male students in the EU, while in science, t...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 16 May 2025

Bankruptcies and registrations decrease in Q1 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, the number of bankruptcy declarations of EU businesses decreased by 0.9% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024.  At the same time, business registrations also dropped by 5.1% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024.  This information comes from data on business...
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  • News articles Environment and energy
  • PUBLISHED: 15 May 2025

EU economy greenhouse gas emissions up 2.2% in Q4 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 897 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.2% increase compared with the same quarter of 2023 (878 million tonnes of CO2-eq). The EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) registered a 1.5% increase in the f...
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  • News articles Science and technology
  • PUBLISHED: 14 May 2025

53% of EU enterprises held remote meetings in 2024

In 2024, in the EU, 52.9% of enterprises with 10 or more employees conducted meetings remotely via the internet. With a 2.9 percentage points (pp) increase from 2022, this indicates that the changes implemented in work models during the COVID-19 pandemic might be here to stay.  Among the EU coun...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 14 May 2025

People in the EU worked on average 36 hours per week

In 2024, the actual weekly hours of work for both full-time and part-time workers aged 20-64 in the EU in their main job averaged 36.0 hours, down from 37.0 hours in 2014.  A closer look at EU countries reveals notable differences. In 2024, the longest working weeks were recorded in Greece (39.8...
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  • News articles International trade
  • PUBLISHED: 13 May 2025

Trade in agricultural products: €39.2 billion surplus

In 2024, the EU exported €234.1 billion worth of agricultural products and imported €194.9 billion, generating a €39.2 billion surplus. Compared with 2023, both exports and imports registered year-on-year increases of 2.8% and 6.7%, respectively. Between 2014 and 2024, EU trade in agricultural p...
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  • News articles Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
  • PUBLISHED: 13 May 2025

Sales of pesticides in the EU down another 9% in 2023

In 2023, approximately 292 000 tonnes of pesticides were sold in the EU, the lowest level since the start of the data series in 2011. This marked a 9% decline compared to 2022 and an 18% drop compared to 2021. In terms of the types of pesticides sold in the EU, the main categories in 2023 were ‘...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 12 May 2025

4.26 million under temporary protection in March

On 31 March 2025, slightly more than 4.26 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU.  The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were ...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 9 May 2025

Happy Europe Day 2025!

Every year on 9 May, we celebrate Europe Day, commemorating the signing of the 'Schuman Declaration' on 9 May 1950. The declaration was an ambitious plan to secure long-term peace in post-war Europe and is considered the beginning of what is now the EU.  If you are in Luxembourg, we invite you t...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 8 May 2025

89 000 EU Blue Cards issued for skilled workers in 2023

In 2023, around 89 000 highly qualified non-EU workers received an EU Blue Card, a work and residence permit for highly qualified people from outside the EU. Germany issued the largest number (69 000 or 78% of all EU Blue Cards), followed by Poland (7 000 or 8%) and France (4 000 or 4%). Citize...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 8 May 2025

Strong economic impact of multinational groups

The second round of the micro data linking exercise between EuroGroups Register and structural business statistics highlights the economic significance of multinational enterprise (MNE) groups operating within national economies. In 2022, independent enterprises accounted for an average of 95.2%...
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