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Eurozone unemployment remains stable at 10.2 pct in April

Xinhua, May 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for the 19-country euro area was 10.2 percent in April 2016, stable compared with March this year and remaining the lowest rate recorded since August 2011, according to figures unveiled Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in the wider 28-country European Union (EU) was 8.7 percent in April 2016, being the lowest rate recorded since April 2009 and down from 8.8 percent in March 2016, the figures from Eurostat, or the EU statistical agency, showed.

Eurostat said compared with March 2016, the number of persons unemployed decreased by 106,000 in the EU and by 63,000 in the euro area.

Among the EU member states, the lowest unemployment rates in April 2016 were recorded in the Czech Republic (4.1 percent), Germany (4.2 percent) and Malta (4.3 percent), while the highest unemployment rates were observed in Greece (24.2 percent in February 2016) and Spain (20.1 percent), the EU agency noted. Endit