OREANDA-NEWS. April 23, 2015. Just over half of the NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (EU) recorded a decrease of at least 0.5 percentage points in their regional unemployment rate in 2014 compared with 2013.

However, regional unemployment rates continued to vary widely across the EU regions in 2014, with the lowest rates recorded in the regions of Praha in the Czech Republic and Oberbayern in Germany (both 2.5%), followed by T?bingen, Oberpfalz, Niederbayern and Unterfranken (all situated in Germany and all below 3.0%).

At the opposite end of the scale, the highest unemployment rates were registered in five Spanish regions: Andaluc?a (34.8%), Canarias (32.4%), Ceuta (31.9%), Extremadura (29.8%) and Castilla-la Mancha (29.0%).