Unemployment in the eurozone fell to 6.1 percent in February, the lowest level since the introduction of the euro as a single currency in 1999, according to new figures from Eurostat. The German newspaper Die Zeit reports.
In January, unemployment was 6.5 percent, and the number of unemployed people in the eurozone fell by 70,000. A total of 10.58 million people were unemployed in February.
The figures cover up large differences between individual countries. Spain continues to have the highest unemployment rate at 10.4 percent, followed by Sweden at nine percent, Finland at 8.8 percent and Greece at 8.6 percent. However, unemployment has fallen in both Spain and Greece.
Germany is among the countries with the lowest unemployment in the eurozone, but Eurostat has not yet published the exact figure for February.
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