La Finlandia è ora al terzo posto in termini di tasso di disoccupazione nell’UE

You were right, the past tense “did” describes the situation. The present tense does not since Finland, in fact, does not.

Don’t worry, the current government has a plan to get it to the top of this list.

This already outdated, it’s for June. In August Finland had less unemployment than Sweden, and is 4th worse.

Edit: Source https://www.destatis.de/Europa/EN/Topic/Population-Labour-Social-Issues/Labour-market/EULabourMarketCrisis.html

Personally I feel this whole unemployment “crisis” is mostly not actually because of there would not be enough competent employees. The issue is, employers are trying to recruit with such shit terms, conditions and salary, that there is no sense in accepting that bullshit. I feel that the situation is not as bad in the more higher education fields (it’s not good there either), but the low wage positions that are being recruited have it the worst.

Another big issue I personally view as one of the main culprits is the rental labor companies that have taken over the low wage job market. If you work on a 0-hour contract, there is also quite much zero possibilities for a stable life, mortgage or anything involving planning for your own future. Because of this, I’d also think that all kinds of mental issues will be and already are more prominent.

Also I sadly don’t have any solutions to give, except maybe for establishing your own companies that try to do better and employ sensibly. Then again that is not an easy task either, especially if you are in the bottom end of the market yourself.