The Czech Republic boasted the lowest unemployment rate in the European Union in August, at 2 percent, followed by Germany with 3.1 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Poland and Malta were tied in third place, each with 3.3 percent.
Meanwhile, Greece had the highest jobless rate in the EU, at 17 percent, while Spanish unemployment was the second-highest at 13.8 percent, the agency said on Monday.
It reported that the EU average for August was 6.2 percent, down from 6.3 percent in July and 6.7 percent in August 2018.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last week that the Polish jobless rate stood at 5.2 percent in August, unchanged from July.
(gs/pk)
Source: IAR, ec.europa.eu/eurostat