National Employment Agency

According to the latest figures of the Bulgarian Employment Agency, which were released on Thursday, the unemployment rate in March stood at 11 %, retaining its level from February.

However compared to the same month a year ago, the unemployment rate registered a decrease with 1.2 %, the website of the National Employment Agency informs.

Djukanovic on Monday presented the five new ministers to the leaderhip of his ruling Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS after months of speculation about changes within the government.
 
It is expected that parliament will vote on the new Education, Culture, Health, Justice and Labour ministers at its session scheduled for Tuesday.

The unemployment rate was 5.46 percent at end-January, up 0.17 percent from December, a release of the National Employment Agency (ANOFM) informed AGERPRES on Wednesday.

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The unemployment in January was, however, down 0.39 percent year-on-year.

Most unemployed people ? 97,102 ? were unskilled agricultural workers.

The unemployment rate in Romania hit 5.29 percent at a national level at end-Dec., by 0.11 percent higher than in Nov. and by 0.36 percentage points lower than at end-Dec. 2013, says a release sent by the National Employment Agency to AGERPRES on Thursday.

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BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday the number of unemployed in July dropped by 4,029, or 0.52 percent, compared to the month before, making it the 5th month in a row that the number of unemployed registered with the National Employment Agency (NSZ) was going down.

In July, the unemployment rates in Bulgaria registered a decline for the sixth consecutive month reaching 10.6%, according to data collected by the National Employment Agency.

The decrease compared to June is of 0.1 percent, Bulgarian National Radio reports. The number of unemployed Bulgarians has dropped by nearly 54,000 people since the beginning of the year.

Unemployment rates in Bulgaria have recorded a slight decrease in June, according to the National Employment Agency.

A total of 10.7% of Bulgarians were unemployed in June which is some 0.5 percent less than the levels recorded in May.

In June, the unemployment rates marked the most dramatic decline since 2004 - some 16,000 fewer unemployed.