New high for eurozone unemployment

2012-07-02 5

The number of people without a job in the eurozone in May rose to the highest since the introduction of the euro.

With increased lay-offs in France, Spain and even Austria, the region's unemployment total is now at 17.56 million, that is 11.1 percent of the working population.

The figures were compiled by the EU's statistics office Eurostat.

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