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Eurozone unemployment rate holds at 9-year low

Xinhua,January 31, 2018 Adjust font size:

BRUSSELS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Eurozone unemployment rate remained stable at 8.7 percent in December last year, still the lowest since January 2009, the statistics agency of the European Union (EU) Eurostat said on Wednesday.

Among the member states, the lowest unemployment rates in December were recorded in the Czech Republic, Malta and Germany. The highest unemployment rates were observed in Greece and Spain.

Analysts expected the eurozone's unemployment rate to fall over the next few years. Enditem