**Unemployment levels across the 16 countries that use the euro hit a 10-year high in July, as the impact of the recession continued to be felt.**The number of people unemployed across the eurozone region totalled 15.1 million people in July, a seasonally-adjusted rate of 9.5%.
This was the worst monthly percentage figure recorded since May 1999.
The figure across all 27 members of the European Union was 9%, or 21.8 million people out of work.
This was the highest level of unemployment across the EU as a whole since 2005.
Unemployment increased in July in the eurozone’s two largest economies - France and Germany - despite both exiting recession between April and June.
France’s unemployment rate in July rose to 9.8% from 9.6% in June, while Germany’s increased to 7.7% from 7.2%.
Analysts put both rises down to the usual time-lag you get before employment levels start to pick up again once a country has left recession.