02/07/2021 (Agence Europe) – The unemployment rate in the euro zone stood at 7.9% in May 2021, compared with 8.1% in April, according to Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, on Friday 2 July. It remained slightly higher than a year ago, when it stood at 7.5%. Similarly, there is a slight downturn for the EU as a whole, where the unemployment rate stood at 7.3% in May 2021, compared to 7.4% in April (and 6.9% in May 2020). In total, 15.2 million people were unemployed in May 2021,...