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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7773

5 August 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/regional unemployment
Regional unemployment rates in the EU between 2.1% and 28.7%, according to Eurostat

Brussels, 04/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - A report from the EC's Statistical Office, Eurostat (Statistics in focus, No. 3/2000, entitled "Unemployment in the regions of the European Union 1999", confirms that the unemployment rate in the different regions of the EU is marked by considerable differences. The figures for April 1999, the last available, ranged for NUTS-2 regions from 2.1% in the region of Aland (Finland) to 28.7% in the region of Calabria (Italy). Compared to the figures for April...

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