19/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - 1.7% jobs vacant. The job vacancy rate in the euro area and the EU has remained relatively stable around the 1.7% threshold since 2011 and on Thursday 18 June the EU's statistical office (Eurostat) noted that this was also the case for the first quarter of 2015 - with the job vacancy rate in the euro area being 1.1% (1.2% in EU) in industry and construction, and 2.3% in services (2.2% in EU). Vacant posts were most numerous in Germany (2.9%) and in the UK (2.4%),...