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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9167

5 April 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Unemployment falls in euro-zone, unchanged in EU-25

Brussels, 04/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - In February 2006, unemployment in the euro-zone stood at 8.2%, compared with 8.3% in January and 8.8% in February 2005. In the EU-25, it was 8.5%, unchanged from the previous month, but down from the 8.9% of February 2005. Seventeen Member States recorded a fall in unemployment over a year, five an increase and two remained unchanged. The largest relative decreases were in Estonia (from 8.8% to 5.9%), Lithuania (9.5% to 6.6%), Denmark (5.3% to 4.4%)...

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