EMPLOYMENT / Employment

Unemployment rate fell to 8.5% in eurozone last February

Brussels, 04/04/2018 (Agence Europe)

According to the figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, on Wednesday 4 April, the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the eurozone was 8.5% in February 2018. This is the lowest rate recorded in the eurozone since December 2008.

This rate is therefore 0.1% lower than in January 2018 (see EUROPE 11972) and 1% lower than in February 2017 (see EUROPE 11760). The EU28 unemployment rate was 7.1% in February 2018, down by 0.1% compared to figures for...