Overview
- Eurostat’s November 2025 data show unemployment at 6.0% in the EU and 6.3% in the eurozone, with 13.22 million unemployed in the EU and 10.93 million in the eurozone.
- Compared with October, the number of unemployed fell by 93,000 in the EU and 71,000 in the eurozone, yet it rose year on year by 416,000 and 253,000 respectively.
- Spain recorded a 10.4% unemployment rate and more than 2.5 million jobseekers, while it also posted the EU’s highest youth unemployment at roughly 25%.
- Coverage diverges on the national leader: El Periódico lists Spain as highest, whereas Faro de Vigo cites Eurostat figures putting Finland at 10.6% versus Spain’s 10.4%.
- Malta had the lowest unemployment rate at 3.1%, with Poland and the Czech Republic at 3.2%, and reporting links rising Nordic joblessness to the 2022 energy-price shock.