Unemployment in Spain rises above 3,000,000

Unemployment in Spain rose almost 140,000 in December, the ninth consecutive month it has risen, and breached three million for the first time in over 12 years. According to Eurostat figures, Spain's unemployment was already 13.4 per cent in November (the highest in the Eurozone) before the further rise in unemployment in December, against a Eurozone average of 7.8 per cent for