The Czech Republic boasted the lowest unemployment rate in the European Union in December, at 2 percent, followed by Germany and the Netherlands, each with 3.2 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Poland, with 3.3 percent, was in fourth place, narrowly ahead of Hungary and Malta.
Meanwhile, Greece had the highest jobless rate in the EU, at 16.6 percent, while Spanish unemployment was the second-highest at 13.7 percent, the agency said.
It reported that the EU average for December was 6.2 percent, down from 6.3 percent in November and 6.6 percent in December 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 December, up from 5.1 percent in November.
(gs/pk)
Source: IAR, ec.europa.eu