Polish jobless rate second-lowest in EU, at 2.7% in June: Eurostat

Unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.7 percent in June, unchanged from May and the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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The Czech Republic boasted the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in June, at 2.4 percent, while Germany trailed Poland in third place, with 2.8 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

Poland 🇵🇱 records second-lowest #unemployment rate in the European Union in June - 2.7%.

The unemployment rate in the whole #EU reached 6%. pic.twitter.com/1mXdtcTnvc

— Poland in the EU (@PLPermRepEU) August 1, 2022

Meanwhile, Spain had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 12.6 percent, while Greek unemployment was the second-highest at 12.3 percent, the agency's data showed.

📊 Stopa bezrobocia wg @EU_Eurostat w czerwcu 2022 roku wyniosła w Polsce 2,7%. pic.twitter.com/LXwlvLvVJL

— Ministerstwo Rodziny i Polityki Społecznej (@MRiPS_GOV_PL) August 1, 2022

Eurostat reported on Monday that the EU average for June was 6 percent, stable compared with May.

Euro area #unemployment at 6.6% in June, EU at 6.0% https://t.co/Wn4SIkjx1G pic.twitter.com/xwYNmYzVgu

— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) August 1, 2022

Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that the Polish jobless rate dropped to 4.9 percent in June, from 5.1 percent in May.

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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat