The unemployment rate fell slightly in the euro zone countries last May (from 6.7% in April to 6.6%), while in the European Union it remained unchanged at 6.1%. Spain remains the state with the highest unemployment, although it fell from 13.3% in April to 13.1% in May.
This follows from the data published today by the Eurostat community statistics office, which estimates that in May 2022, some 13 million men and women were unemployed in the EU, of which 11 million were in the euroz