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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy

Unemployment up to 8.9% - highest since 2005

Brussels, 30/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - The euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 8.9% in March 2009, compared with 8.7% in February. It was 7.2% in March 2008. The EU27 unemployment rate was 8.3% in March 2009, compared with 8.1% in February. It was 6.7% in March 2008. (L.C./trans/rh)

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Importance and significance of next two energy summits
THE DAY IN POLITICS
We will be closed on Friday 1 May. Newsletter EUROPE 9894 will be dated 5 May 2009:
(EU) EP/PALESTINE: “Breaking the vicious circle”
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: EU is asked to “lower the tone” and be “discreet”
(EU) EU/ELECTIONS: EPP adopts “manifesto” with which it hopes to win elections in order to remain Parliament's main political force
(EU) EP/ELECTIONS: Parliament and European elections five years after enlargement
(EU) EP/ELECTIONS: Businesses hope future MEPs will make competitiveness a priority concern
(EU) EU/JHA: United States calls on Europe to make “sacrifices” to close Guantanamo
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE:
(EU) EU/FESTIVAL OF EUROPE:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/HEALTH: Health ministers reaffirm need for coordinated European response to new human flu
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/BANKING: Question of retaining securitised assets in banks' financial accounts last remaining obstacle to adoption of revised Basle II directive
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Move to horizontal initiative for pre-contractural information and distribution of retail financial products
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: Ministers to debate economic situation and try to reach agreement on review of tobacco duty
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Budget consolidation, a long-term demand
(EU) EU/ECONFIN: Council also underlines economic success of most recent rounds of enlargement
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Unemployment up to 8.9% - highest since 2005
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/FYROM: Skopje makes progress on visa liberalisation
(EU) STATE AID: Go-ahead to temporary Slovak aid scheme and extension of Finnish support scheme to financial institutions
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Report on functioning of key antitrust regulation
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Judgment of Cypriot court must be enforced by other member states even if it concerns land in region where Community law is suspended
(EU) EU/JHA: Frontex signs agreement with US Department of Homeland Security
(EU) EP/JHA: €1 million for missing children alert scheme
(EU) EP/SESSION: Working time, social agenda, addressing the crisis, asylum, Lisbon Treaty
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Review of national aid scheme for agriculture in northern regions of Finland
(EU) EU/WTO: Pascal Lamy formally elected for second term of office
(EU) EU/CONFERENCES: Workshops, colloquia, conferences and seminars devoted to European integration in May
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main acts published in Official Journal of EU
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