collieryकोयला-खान Unemployment across the 17-nation eurozone hit a record 18 million in July. The EU statistics agency Eurostat today said, some 88,000 more people were added to the jobless total and the unemployment rate remained at 11.3. per cent. Eurostat said the over 18 million jobless total in July, was the highest since records began in 1995. The highest unemployment rate in the eurozone was in Spain, at 25.1 per cent. 

The lowest was in Austria, at 4.5 per cent. Compared with a year ago, the unemployment rate fell in 10 eurozone countries, increased in 16 and remained stable in Slovenia. Spain and Greece, which are struggling to tackle sovereign debt and banking crises, recorded jobless rates of more than 50 per cent in the under-25s age-group.