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Olan McEvoy
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Get in touch with us nowAs of 2022, Italy was the European country with the greatest number of self-employed workers, followed by the UK, France, and Germany. Self-employment is often linked to family businesses and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which Italy in particular has a large number of. Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta have the the smallest number of self-employed persons, with less than 50,000 of these workers in each country.
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