The share of recent high school or college graduates from the EU who were employed reached 83.5% in 2023, up by 1.1 percentage points compared to 82.4% in 2022, but Romania is among the member countries with the most unemployed among recent graduates from the EU, according to the data published on Wednesday by Eurostat. Recent graduates are people aged between 20 and 34, who have completed their secondary or tertiary studies in the last three years. According to Eurostat, the employment rate among recent graduates is higher than 80% in 22 EU member countries. The best in this chapter is Malta, where 95.8% of recent graduates were employed in 2023, followed by the Netherlands (93.2%) and Germany (91.5%). At the opposite pole, the lowest employment rates among recent graduates were recorded in Italy (67.5%), Greece (72.3%) and Romania (74.8%). The employment rate is higher among college graduates than among those who have completed high school. In 2023, the employment rate of recent university graduates was above 90% in Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Malta and Estonia. In only two EU member countries this indicator was lower than 80%: Greece and Italy. By gender, the employment rate among recent EU graduates is higher among men (85%) than among women (82%). This situation is found in 18 member states, including Romania. However, the biggest difference is in the Czech Republic, where the employment rate of men who have recently graduated from high school or college is 19.4 percentage points higher than among women. Conversely, in nine Member States, the employment rate among recent graduates is higher among women than among men. The biggest difference is in Bulgaria, where the employment rate of women who have recently graduated from high school or college is 6 percentage points higher than among men. At the EU level, in the last ten years there has been an increase in the employment rate among recent graduates. In 2013, this rate stood at 74.3% and in the meantime it has steadily increased. The exception was in 2020, affected by the pandemic, when the share of recent high school or college graduates from the EU decreased by 2.3 percentage points, compared to 2019, to 78.7%.
The City Hall of Oradea, in northwest Romania, has begun installing new smart parking meters as part of its ongoing modernization and digitalization of the municipal parking system. The first batch of devices has already been placed in central areas, and the entire system is expected to become operational by the end of the year. […]
Orange Romania announced the launch of the 5G+ technology in the Bucharest subway, becoming the first operator in the country to reach mobile data speeds of up to 1 Gbps in the underground network. The company has begun activating the technology in several stations and plans wider deployment in the coming weeks. The first 5G+ […]
PPC blue Romania, the electric mobility division of the PPC group, announced the expansion of its national charging infrastructure through the acquisition of the Hermes Flow network, adding 116 new charging points for electric vehicles. Most are located in the Bucharest-Ilfov region, with the rest in 10 other counties. Once fully integrated, users will have […]
Developer Nusco announced on Thursday, November 27, that it has obtained the construction permit for Phase III of the Nusco City project, which will continue the development of one of the largest urban revitalization projects in Bucharest. Mirroring Phase II, this stage will consist of seven buildings with an estimated investment of over EUR 150 million. […]
Romanian tennis player Iulian Chiriță secured two medals at the ITTF World Youth Championships 2025 in Cluj-Napoca, after qualifying for the finals in the mixed and men’s doubles. In mixed doubles in the Under-19 juniors’ competition, Chiriță and Welsh player Anna Hursey defeated the French pair Flavien Coton/Leana Hochart 3-2 in the quarterfinals, and in […]
Romania has signed a major contract with France for the acquisition of Mistral portable short-range air defense missile systems. The agreement was concluded on Tuesday, November 25, between Romania’s Ministry of National Defense and France’s Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans, through their respective General Directorates for Armaments. The acquisition is valued at EUR […]
