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Eurozone: Unemployment is rising, reached 10%

The rate of unemployment in the eurozone and the EU at 27, continues to increase. Under the impact of the crisis, he crossed the month of December 2009 to below 10% for the euro area, a level not reached since its inception in 1998. The unemployment rate in this area was in November to 9.9% and 8.2% in December 2008. Within the European Union to 27, unemployment is also growing, reaching 9.6% in December against 9.5% the previous month.

In total, therefore, 4.628 million more unemployed recorded by the European Union to 27, particularly affected by the crisis on the employment front, since December 2008.

Belgium (8.2% unemployment in December), Luxembourg (6.2%) and Germany (7.5% unemployment only partly through the use of massive unemployment) are the least impacted by unemployment, while Latvia (22.8%), Estonia (15.2% in the third quarter 2009) and Lithuania (14.6 in the third quarter of 2009 as well), beat the European record of rising to a year.

With unemployment of 10.0% in December 2009, France is however exactly the average of the eurozone.