Brussels, 01/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the euro zone rose to 8.8% in August 2003 (unchanged from July 2003), as against 8.5% in August 2002. The unemployment rate in EU of the Fifteen stood at 8.0% in August 2003 (as it did in July of the same year), compared to 7.7% for August 2002. This was contained within data published this Wednesday 1 October by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office in Luxembourg.
Eurostat indicates that in August 2003: -...