Euro-zone and Germany Unemployment (Apr./May)

The remarkably small increase in unemployment in the euro-zone reflects the success of the government job subsidy schemes and an exodus from the labour force in Italy. We suspect that the unemployment rate will rise further in the coming months, but not as far as we had feared.

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