UNEMPLOYMENT : EU JOBLESS RATE STICKS AT 8.5% IN JANUARY.

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The seasonally-adjusted rate of unemployment in the EU averaged 8.5% in January 2006, unchanged on December 2005 but still well down on the 8.9% recorded in January 2005. According to estimates published by Eurostat on 1 March, 18.5 million people were out of work in the 25-nation EU this January. The jobless...