“In 2025, the share of young people aged 15 to 29 neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET) in the EU stood at 11.0%, down from 11.1% in 2024 and 15.2% in 2015”. This was found by a Eurostat survey, with the comment: “This brings the EU closer to achieving its goal of reducing NEET rates among young people to 9% by 2030, as set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights.” The NEET rate – which is still high and worrying – among young people varied by age. Among the youngest (15-19 years), only 5.3% were NEET, while the rate more than doubled for those aged 20-24 (12.8%) and 25-29 (14.7%). The lowest NEET rates for young people were registered in the Netherlands (5.3%), Sweden (5.9%) and Slovenia (7.6%). In contrast, the highest rates were in Romania (19.2%), Bulgaria (13.8%) and Greece (13.6%). Between 2015 and 2025, the NEET rate decreased in 22 of 27 EU countries. The largest drops were registered in Italy (12.4 percentage points, from 25.7% to 13.3%), Greece (10.5 pp, from 24.1% to 13.6%) and Croatia (9.0 pp, from 19.8% to 10.8%).