The eurozone unemployment rate remained unchanged in June at 6.6%, the lowest since 1998

Good news on the employment front in Europe. The unemployment rate in the euro zone remained unchanged in June at 6.6% of the working population, its historical low, Eurostat announced on Monday 1 August. This rate of 6.6%, already recorded in May, had been reached in April, according to revised figures from Eurostat. The indicator is at its lowest since the European statistics office began compiling this series in April 1998.

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For the whole of the European Union (EU), the unemployment rate was 6.0%, a rate also identical to that recorded in May revised downwards, also a historic low. Over one year in June, the unemployment rate fell by 1.3 points in the euro zone and by 1.2 in the EU.

In the EU, the highest unemployment rates in June were recorded in Spain (12.6%), Greece (12.3%), Italy (8.1%) and Sweden (7.6%). %). In France, 7.2% of the active population was unemployed, according to Eurostat data. The Czech Republic (2.4%), Poland (2.7%) and Germany (2.8%) had the lowest unemployment rates.