According to figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union on Monday 9 January, euro area unemployment remained stable at 9.8% in November 2016, although it decreased by 0.1% in the EU as a whole (8.3%). These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Overall, significant variations can be observed in six member states between October and November. Unemployment particularly took a tumble of 0.2% in Ireland (7.3%), France (9.5%), Malta (4.8%) and Slovakia (9%). On the other hand, it rose by 0.4% in Cyprus (14.2%) and by 0.3% in Lithuania (7.9%).
Youth unemployment made an unexpected leap and increased by 0.3% in the euro area (21.2%) and by 0.1% in the Union (18.8%). Italy experienced a particularly high rise given that it saw a 1.8% increase over the course of a single month (39.4%). Despite a globally positive and stable trend in Spain, the country also saw the number of its young unemployed rise significantly to 44.4%, (an increase of 0.6%). It was a similar situation in Portugal where the youth unemployment rate also rose by 0.6% (28.4%). (Original version in French by Jan Kordys)