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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9045

11 October 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Huge differences in unemployment levels between different regions of the EU

Brussels, 10/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - Regional unemployment levels in the EU in 2004 ranged between 2.4% in Dorset & Somerset in the United Kingdom and 32.8% in La Réunion (a Caribbean island that is part of France). Overall, the unemployment in the EU did not change, remaining at 9.2% of the working population between 2003 and 2004, but unemployment levels rose in 57% of the NUTS 2 regions of the EU. Of the 254 NUTS 2 regions, 44 had unemployment equal or below the EU average (4.6%). The...

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