Eurostat: Unemployment at 9.6% in Poland

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Poland stood at 9.6 percent in May 2014, according to data released by the EU’s statistics office Eurostat on Tuesday. A month earlier the rate was 9.7 percent. Throughout the EU the unemployment rate was 10.3 percent in May compared to 10.4 percent in April. In the euro area it was 11.6 percent in May and was stable since April. The youth (under 25) unemployment rate in May was 24 percent in Poland, 22.2 percent in the EU and 23.3 percent in the euro area, the Eurostat also said.