Italy, France, and Spain are the EU nations with the very best collection of applicants up to now 5 years.
The Blue Guide Traineeship programme welcomed 9,562 trainees between 2020 and 2025.
Over the last 5 years, the Ecu Fee employed extra feminine trainees than male trainees around the Ecu Union.
That is in line with information shared through the Secretariat Common of the Ecu Fee by means of a Freedom of Knowledge (FOI) request.
The Blue Guide Traineeship programme is a five-month paid internship introduced through the Fee, happening two times a yr – in March and October.
It supplies graduates with the chance to realize enjoy in EU policymaking and management.
There have been handiest six cases by which the collection of male trainees outnumbered feminine trainees.
Malta used to be the EU nation the place this case came about thrice – in March 2020 and 2023, and in October 2023.
The Netherlands had two occurrences in October 2024 and March 2025, and Denmark had one example in March 2020.
The one nation the place the collection of male and female trainees used to be equivalent used to be Luxembourg in October 2021.
Between 2020 and 2025, the programme admitted handiest 168 non-binary folks.
Italy is the rustic with the very best collection of applicants, exceeding 25,000.
France follows with over 11,000 applicants, and Spain has moderately over 10,000.
Against this, Estonia recorded the fewest applicants at simply 199, adopted through Malta with 240 and Latvia with 257.
The United Kingdom’s remaining participation on this traineeship used to be in 2020, with 29 trainees in March and 24 in October.
The yr 2021 noticed the very best collection of applicants general, accounting for greater than 19,000 programs.
Alternatively, in 2024, the very best collection of trainees used to be accredited, exceeding 1,900 members.
Video editor • Mert Can Yilmaz