This specific situation identified in October is not due to any further fall in unemployment in the Eurozone and the EU as a whole, as pointed out by the EU Statistical Office (Eurostat) on Thursday 1 December budget but the fact that no other member state has experienced an increase since September.
Unemployment is now 9.8% in the Eurozone and 8.3% in the EU. This is a fall of 0.1% in both cases compared the previous month. This fall is slight but consistent. Nevertheless, this situation conceals a specific situation that all member states have experienced, namely, a maximum decrease of 0.2% or in other words, stabilisation. Five member states have experienced a 0.2% fall in unemployment: Ireland (7.5%), France (9.7%), Latvia (9.5%), Austria (5.9%) and Slovakia (9.1%).
The absence of an increase in employment anywhere is sufficiently rare to be flagged up. The only shadow cast on this scoreboard involves youth unemployment, which stands at 20.7% in the Eurozone and 18.4% in the EU. It significantly increased in Malta (+1.2%, 11.4%), Spain (+0.7%) and the Czech Republic (+0.6%, 10.7%). (Original version in French by Jan Kordys)