Unemployment at 20-year low

Unemployment in July in Poland stood at a record low 6.1 percent , the lowest value in the 20-year history of the survey, Eurostat reported.  Romania posted the same result. According to the Main Statistics Office (GUS), the number was 8.6 percent for Poland. The two countries posted results slightly better than Denmark and Luxembourg. Amongst EU members, only Holland and Austria (6 percent), Czechia and Germany (4.2 percent) and Malta (3.9 percent) came out lower. For the whole of the euro zone the unemployment rate is 10.1 percent, while for the EU is stands at 8.6 percent. The biggest problems of job unavailability remains in the countries of southern Europe, notably among the youth population. The BAEL research of the Main Statistics Office has been conducted every quarter since 1992, and surveys 54,700 inhabitants of Poland.