EU reports wide disparities in unemployment across bloc
The EU statistics agency Eurostat released its 2018 report showing extremely diverse unemployment rates across Europe.
Eurozone unemployment stable at 7.8 per cent in January
The unemployment rate in the eurozone held steady for January, according to data released by the European Union's statistics agency.
Eurozone unemployment remains stable
The Eurozone countries with the lowest unemployment rates in June were the Czech Republic at 2.4 per cent and Germany at 3.4 per cent.
German price levels 5 per cent higher than EU average in 2017
Frankfurt – Consumer price levels in Germany were 5 per cent higher than the average in the European Union’s 28 member states in 2017, statistics released Friday showed. The most expensive country within the bloc was Denmark, where the price level was 41.5 per cent above the EU average, according to data from the Federal […]
EU: 650,000 people applied for asylum in 2017, half of 2015 record
Almost one million asylum applications were pending at the end of 2017, with Germany accounting for 48 per cent of the total figure.
117.5 million people at risk of poverty in 2016: EU
More than 117 million people (or 23.4% of the population) in EU member countries are living at risk of poverty in 2016, according to Eurostat.