Brussels, 11/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 11 December, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Eurostat, published data on regional unemployment in 2006 within the 27 EU member states. The data is extracted from a Eurostat report (Statistics in Focus No 124/2007) entitled: “new member states contribute to reducing unemployment in Europe”.
Main points from the 2006 data in the EU27 are: (1) regional unemployment rates varied greatly in 2006 ranging from 2.6% in the...