Is Italy the worst EU country for fresh graduates?

Only 67.5% of people aged 20 to 34 manage to find a job in Italy within three years of graduation, Eurostat data shows.

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00:00Which are the most attractive EU countries for fresh graduates?

00:10Slowly but surely, the rate of recent EU graduates who are in a job is going up.

00:16The latest Eurostat data shows the recent graduate employment rate went up by 1.1 percent

00:24between 2022 and 2023, a 9.2 percent jump since 2013. The only contraction throughout the past

00:35decade occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the rate stands at 83.5 percent.

00:44The country with the highest employment share is Malta, with 95.8 percent.

00:51Besides the small Mediterranean island, the Netherlands stands second at 93.2 percent,

00:59followed by Germany and Austria. Italy is at the bottom, with only 67.5 percent of people aged 20

01:09to 34 finding a job within three years of graduation. In terms of foreign students,

01:17Germany is the major go-to destination. The country accounts for 24 percent of all

01:24tertiary students from abroad studying in the EU, followed by France.