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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9244

2 August 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 18
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/unemployment
Unemployment rate drops to 7.8% in eurozone and to 8.1% in EU25

Brussels, 01/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - In June 2006, the seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment was 7.8% in the eurozone (7.9% in May and 8.5% in June 2005) and 8.1% in the EU25 (8.2% in May and 8.8% in June 2005). The lowest rates were in the Netherlands (3.8%), Denmark (3.9%), Ireland (4.4%) and Luxembourg (4.7%) and the highest were in Poland (16%), Slovakia (15.1%), Greece (9.6% during the fourth quarter 2005), France (8.7%) and Malta (8.5%). Unemployment fell in seventeen countries...