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    Southern European unemployment rate now matches Northern European

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    6. TukkerWolf on

      Surprising how high the unemployment rate in northern Europe is. But anyway, very good news for the southern countries. 🙂

    8. grafknives on

      Are those South countries generating some much workplace? GDP growth?

      Or it is just demographical changes?

    12. Aakhkharu on

      As a greek, ‘PIGS’ is accurate.

      Also, yeah the rates met but the difference is that it’s on the lowest end for pigs and a the highest end for snifd. So the comparison is somewhat ingenuine.

    16. CurrencyDesperate286 on

      Sure, unemployment rates have converged, but there’s still huge disparity in labour force participation so *employment* rates are still not similar, except for Portugal.

      Employment rate – Q3 2025:

      Italy – 67.5%

      Spain – 72.3%

      Greece – 70.9%

      Denmark – 80.0%

      Sweden – 81.9%

      Norway – 79.4%

      Iceland – 87.2%

    17. Familiar-Weather5196 on

      Portugal and Italy doing most of the work here, and Sweden and Finland in reverse for the nordics

    19. IfailAtSchool on

      Want some austerity measures? You could try them, they are wonderful. Looks like you are lazy

    22. MairusuPawa on

      I’m interested in the “bullshit jobs” rate. Maybe we’re measuring this with a wrong approach.

    24. Live-Alternative-435 on

      The Nordics don’t have the Catholic work ethic, and that’s why they’re falling behind.

    25. fianthewolf on

      Well, that seems strange to me, Spain and Greece are around 11% and I don’t think Ireland, Portugal and Italy can compensate for it because if that were the case, those three would really be the ones who would have been notified.

    31. ADenseGuy on

      Nice but I would like to see the % of people in those groups under the poverty line, which I believe is more representative of the state of affairs. 

      Yes, you can have a job, but if it is underpaid and unstable that is still bad.

    32. met_20991 on

      Wonderful, now let’s see also the tons of shitty jobs that cause that because ppl (especially younger generations) in italy and Greece now are more poor then before and have also more uncertain jobs that can’t grant any possibility to plan a future or create a family

      Reality is dire here in italy, don’t belive to raw data: search actively on the net.

    33. BossImWorking on

      North: Early retirement
      South: Take any job just to put food on the table

      Please don’t take this seriously.

    34. EliRed on

      Wow, when did northern europeans become so LAZY? Don’t be spoiled guys. If you want to work, you’ll work. Make yourselves more COMPETITIVE. Move back in with your mom and work for 800 euros a month uninsured, like us sourherners. Then 30 years later, the numbers will improve. Don’t you want the numbers to improve?

    37. danmvi on

      With all the troubles going on in some of the northern economies like Germany, Finland, France what lots of people in northern Europe deserve is that the “lazy southerners” came up with an equally offensive acronym for them and use it for years on end… but don’t worry, we’re better than that…

    38. Frosty-Section-9013 on

      What’s with all the bashing and angry sarcasm? It’s not a competition and we should want all European countries to succeed. I’m happy for Italy and Portugal.

      Edit: I’m a swede

    39. Significant_Swing_76 on

      Fantastic news!

      Problematic that we in Northern Europe is on the rise, but fuck it, I’m just happy that southern Europe is doing great.