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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9830

31 January 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Increase in unemployment in December

Brussels, 30/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - The euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 8.0% in December 2008, compared with 7.9% in November and 7.2% in December 2007. The EU27 unemployment rate was 7.4% in December 2008, compared with 7.3% in November and 6.8% in December of last year. According to Eurostat estimates, published on Friday 30 January, 17.911 million men and women in the EU27, with 12.472 million of these in the euro area, were unemployed in December 2008. Compared...

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