(Brussels) Unemployment keeps shrinking in Europe, and the latest figure posted today by Eurostat about the euro-zone shows 8.7% (end of November 2017). The October’s figure was 8.8%, while in November 2016 it was 9.8%. It is the lowest unemployment rate since 2009, nearly at the onset of the economic crisis. The situation in the EU-28 is even better, with an average unemployment rate of 7.4%. Eurostat estimates that people looking for a job in the European Union are 18 million today, 14 million of them in the euro-zone. There are however remarkable differences between countries. The record-breaking figure is that of the Czech Republic: a mere 2.5% of official unemployment. Not far below it are Malta and Germany (3.6%). At the opposite end of the spectrum, the countries that are having problems with employment are, once again, Greece (20.5%) and Spain (16.7%), though unemployment is decreasing even there. Actually, Greece has recorded a major improvement in the last year, earning 3 per cent points; Portugal and Croatia are doing fine as well. Among the bigger countries, Italy stops at 11%, with more jobs for young people too; France is at 9.2%, Poland at 4.5%, the United Kingdom at 4.2%. In Europe, average youth unemployment (under-25s) is 16.2%, with the highest rates in Greece (39.5%), Spain (37.9%) and Italy (32.7%).