Rates remain high in Italy and Spain. - For the first time since February, unemployment rose slightly in Spain in August, taking the number of job seekers to almost 4.43 million, according to the latest figures released by the Spanish Employment Ministry. August sees the end of seasonal employment and is traditionally bad for employment in Spain. Unemployment rates have always increased in this period since 2000, with the exception of last year. At the end of August, there were 4,427,930...