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Polish jobless rate among EU's lowest, at 2.8% in March: Eurostat

04.05.2023 06:30
Unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.8 percent in March, unchanged from February and one of the lowest rates 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 March at 2.6 percent, followed by Poland and Germany, each with 2.8 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

Meanwhile, Spain had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 12.8 percent, while Greek unemployment was the second-highest at 10.9 percent, according to the latest available data.

Eurostat reported on Wednesday that the EU average for March was 6 percent, unchanged from February.

Poland's statistics office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that the Polish jobless rate dropped to 5.4 percent in March, from 5.5 percent in February.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat