The decay of 3.0 min¹⁴³Eu has been investigated by means of a Ge(Li) detector. The ⁺ spectrum obtained with a Si(Li) spectrometer leads to aQ-value of 5100±50 keV. For the first time a decay scheme including levels situated at 107.5, 755.0, 1107.9, 1537.5 and 1912.8 keV has been established. The data are compared to those obtained for the neighbouringN=81¹⁴¹Nd nucleus. Besides, new experimental measurements indicate that the 1345.4 keV level in¹⁴¹Nd has not the odd-parity and would be 5/2⁺, 7/2⁺. Hence, the 7/2^– state is situated at 1967.4 keV. Those data are in reasonable agreement with intermediate coupling calculations.