BRUSSELS (AP) — Unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has struck 12 percent for the first time since the currency was launched in 1999.
Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, says Tuesday that the rate in February was unchanged at the record high. January’s figure was revised up to 12 percent from 11.9 percent.
Over the month, a net 33,000 people in the eurozone joined the ranks of the unemployed.
Spain and Greece continued to suffer from unemployment rates above 26 percent, and many others were seeing their numbers swell to uncomfortable levels.
The February figures came before the recent Cyprus crisis, which has reignited concerns over the future of the euro.
Separately, a closely-watched survey indicated that the eurozone recession continued in the first quarter.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
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Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
