(Brussels) Europe-wide unemployment (Ue28) goes back to 2009’s levels: the rate found by Eurostat as of September 2016 is 8.5% (as 7 years ago), the same as last month’s. One year earlier (September 2015), it was 9.2%. In the euro-zone (19 countries using the single currency), the unemployment rate is instead higher, at 10.0% (one year earlier it was 10.6%). The EU Commission’s statistics bureau thus finds that, in absolute numbers, unemployed people in the EU are 20 million 789 thousand (16 million in the euro-zone). Compared to September 2015, unemployment has decreased by one million 596 thousand units in the 28 EU member states. As to the member states, unemployment is lowest in the Czech Republic (4.0%) and Germany (4.1%); at the other end of the scale, there are Greece (23.2%) and Spain (19.3%). In the last year, unemployment has decreased in 24 states and has grown in just 4 of them: Italy, Estonia, Austria and Denmark. For the under-25s, the most worrying situations are still those of Greece, with 42.7% of jobless young people, Spain with 42.6%, and Italy with 37.1%.