The eurozone closes 2020 with an unemployment rate of 8.3%

The eurozone ended 2020, a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic, with an unemployment rate of 8.3%. The figure remained unchanged in December compared to November, while in the European Union (EU) as a whole the indicator also remained stable at 7.5% during the last month of the year compared to the eleventh, according to the EU statistics office, Eurostat, on Monday. In year-on-year terms, Spain recorded the second largest rise in unemployment among the EU countries for which Eurostat published data today, as the indicator grew by 2.5 percentage points compared to December 2019, a rise identical to that recorded…