Eurostat puts Greece unemployment at 17.6 pct
Greece’s jobless rate rose to 17.6 percent in July, according to data published Monday by Eurostat, the European Union?s statistical office in Luxembourg.
The finding is gloomier than the 16.5 percent figure given by the national statistics agency ELSTAT on October 18.
Greece is second only to Spain, which leads the 27-member bloc’s unemployment charts with 22.6 percent.
