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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8587

19 November 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/employment
Regional unemployment rates vary in 2002 between 2% and 29.3% in the EU - Similar gap (between 3.3% and 26.3%) in candidate countries

Brussels, 18/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, the European Commission published two reports in its 'Statistics in focus' series from which it emerges that the regional rates of unemployment, in 2002, show significant differences - both in the EU 15 and in the ten acceding countries. Thus, in the fifteen current member states, levels vary from between 2% in the Tyrol region in Austria to 29.3% on the French island of Reunion. The differences were slightly smaller than in the candidate...

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