Jobless rate at the Eurozone improved further in January, presenting its lowest level since April 2012 according to official data released Monday. Unemployment in the 19-nation Eurozone fell to 11.2% from 11.3% in December, with the jobless queues down by 140,000 to 18.06 million, said the EU statistics agency, Eurostat, according to which, the largest decreases were observed in Spain (25.5% to 23.4%), Estonia (8.5% to 6.4% between December 2013 and December 2014) and Ireland (12.1% to 10.0%). Germany records the lowest unemployment rates for January (4.7%) as well as Austria (4.8%). Greece’s jobless rate remains the highest (25.8% in November 2014) and Spain follows with 23.4%.
