Hardworking like Greek, earned as a Pole. Surprising Commission report – TVP

According to Eurostat data, taking into account both the full-time employed and self-employed average working time in the main job in Greece is 43.9 hours per week, and in Poland – 42.5 hours. The least time spent at work Finns and French. Their average working time is 39.5 hours. week.
– Unemployment in the EU and most Member States have declined from high levels – currently in the quarterly report of the European Commission, published on Monday. The data show that the work is not about 23.9 million people in the EU.

Falling long-term unemployment
Commission invites note that in the third quarter of 2014. for the first time since 2009. Long-term unemployment rate decreased, the percentage of people who are without a job for more than a year. – Still, about half of the unemployed in the EU, which is approx. 12.4 million people are out of work for a year or longer, and of these, over 6 million more than two years – stated in the report.
recent Eurostat data show that the unemployment rate in Greece is 26.0 per cent. On the other hand, in Poland, the unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. to 9.8 percent of the EU average. The average unemployment rate in the euro area is 11.3 percent. The lowest unemployment rate in the EU is in Denmark (4.9 per cent.), Austria (5.3 percent.), The Czech Republic and the United Kingdom (5.5 percent.).