The EU’s trade in goods balance registered a surplus of €128 billion in 2025, representing a decrease of €8 billion compared with 2024 (€136 billion), according to Eurostat.
35.2 per cent of all managerial positions in the EU were held by women in 2024, up from 31.8% in 2014 according to figures just released by the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat.
EU countries imported €3 471 billion worth of services from non-EU countries in 2024, according to official statistics on international trade in services by modes of supply published by Eurostat.
The EU recorded a trade surplus in the last quarter of 2025, with goods exported to non-EU countries exceeding imports by €28.4 billion.
52.7% of EU enterprises used paid cloud computing services (i.e. online services used to access software, computing power, storage capacity, etc.) in 2025, marking a 7.4 percentage point (pp) increase compared with 2023.
12 EU countries with nuclear electricity production generated 649 524 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in 2024, an increase of 4.8% compared with 2023, according to Eurostat.
Renewable energy sources accounted for 47.5 per cent of gross electricity consumption in the EU in 2024, a 2.1 per cent increase over 2023, according to figures from Eurostat.
