Nearly 80,000 Italians, or almost half of all applicants, signed up for the EU’s general staff exam
Italian candidates may not dominate the final list of successful applicants in the EU’s latest staff recruitment round, despite making up almost half of all candidates, a senior Commission official said.
Emanuele Baldacci, the Commission’s director of HR for specific sites and services, said on Tuesday that application numbers alone do not determine who ultimately enters the pool of successful candidates.
After a six-year hiatus, a record-breaking 170,000 Eurocrat hopefuls signed up for the EU exam that promises lifelong access to the internal recruitment system.
Nearly 80,000 applicants are Italian, and only 1,490 candidates will make it onto the final list, which EU institutions use to hire new staff.
