14/10/2021 (Agence Europe) – The employment rate in the EU stood at 72.8% in the second quarter, according to Eurostat figures published on Thursday 14 October. This corresponds to an increase of 0.7 percentage points (pp) compared to the first quarter of 2021. At the same time, the rate of non-employed people (many of whom are unemployed) is 13.8% of the labour force, or -0.9 pp over the same period. These results remain encouraging in the wake of the pandemic. As always, there are wide...