Luxembourg, 22/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - According to Eurostat, 158.4 million Europeans (EU) had a job in the spring of 2000, or 2.9 million more than the previous year.
In the EU as a whole, the employment rate was 63.1% in 2000, compared to 62.1% in 1999 and 61% in 1998. It was higher than 70% in Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and in Sweden. The targets set in March 2001 by the Stockholm European Council, namely an employment rate of 67% in the EU in 2005, was thus already...