According to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, seasonally-adjusted unemployment stood at 7.6% in the European Union (EU28) in August 2017, and at 9.1% in the euro area (EA19).
The unemployment rate was thus down by 0.1 points in the EU28 compared with July 2017 (7.7%) and by 0.9 points compared with August 2016 (8.5%) – making it the lowest rate since November 2008. For the euro area, the August unemployment rate remained stable compared with that...