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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9841

17 February 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/regional affairs
Eurostat figures show that unemployment ranged between 2.1% and 25.2% across regions of EU in 2007

Brussels, 16/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - In 2007, unemployment at the regional level varied widely in the EU27, from 2.1% in Zeeland (in the Netherlands) to 25.2% in the French overseas territory of La Réunion. Of the 271 EU27 'NUTS' regions (Nomenclature for Territorial Units for Statistics, level 2) for which statistics are available, 28 had levels of unemployment of 3.5% or below in 2007, half the EU27 average. They include 8 regions of the Netherlands, 7 in Italy, 5 in the United Kingdom,...

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