The EU region with the highest employment rate is the archipelago of Åland in Finland (86.4%).
This small Swedish-speaking community in the Baltic Sea leads the latest Eurostat release on jobs, closely followed by a string of central European capital cities: Warsaw (86.2%), Bratislava (85.4%), and Budapest (85.3%).
The new stats come as EU authorities herald a "historic" 75.8% record employment across the bloc for people aged 20 to 64, thanks to a 2.7% increase from 2021.
It also means that the EU may be on track to meet the 78% employment target set for 2030 by the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.
The strategy lays out 20 key principles to secure "fair and well-functioning labour mark
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