Euro zone unemployment reaches near 15-year high
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Unemployment in the euro zone reached its highest level in almost 15 years in February, with more than 17 million people out of work, and economists said they expected job office queues to grow even longer later this year. Joblessness in the 17-nation currency zone rose to 10. 8 percent – in line with a Reuters poll of economists – and 0. 1 points worse than in January, Eurostat said on Monday. “We expect it to go higher, to reach 11 percent by the end of the year,” said Raphael Brun-Aguerre, an economist at JP Morgan in London. . . .
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