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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10431

2 August 2011
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/economy
Unemployment remains stable in june 2011

Brussels, 01/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - The EU27 unemployment rate was 9.4% in June 2011, unchanged compared with May and slightly lower than the 9.7% in June 2010. The euro area (EA17) showed a similar trend: 9.9% in June 2011, unchanged compared with May, and down by 0.3% in comparision with June 2010 (10.2%). Those unemployed in June 2011 numbered 22.473 million men and women in the EU27, of whom 15.640 million were in the euro area. Compared with May 2011, the number of persons unemployed...