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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8011

21 July 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 36 / 47
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Disparity in regional unemployment rates remained in 2000 in EU and in European candidate countries

Luxembourg, 20/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - According to Eurostat, regional unemployment rates within the EU and the Central and Eastern European candidate countries (CEECs) still presented great disparities last year. In the Union, they varied from 1.7% in the region of Aland, in Finland, to 33.1% in the Reunion, French overseas territory. The gap was a little closer in the regions of the CEECs: from 3.4% in the region of Praha, in the Czech Republic, to 31% in Severozapaden, in Bulgaria....

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