The primary aim of this study is to explore how the Member States of the European Union have responded to the crisis, what labour market interventions were preferred, how the structure of labour market expenditures changed between 2008 and 2018. On the other hand, examines the connections between the indicators of the Europe 2020 strategy, as well as the possibilities of condensing the indicators into principal components. Along the dimensions of the created main components, the Member States were grouped by K-mean cluster analysis. The paper also analyses the relationship between the established clusters and the labour market expenditures of each Member State.