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Unemployment mushrooming in Greece, Spain
By EUobserver
Spain, Greece and Cyprus saw the steepest growth in unemployment over the past year, with numbers jumping by 2.5% to 22.9% in Spain and by 5.5% to 18.8% in Greece. Around 24 million men and women in the EU currently have no job, some 723,000 more than in late 2010.