Eurozone unemployment rate jumps to record  Reported by AAP
Tuesday, January 8, 2013  Currency Converter    The unemployment
rate across the troubled eurozone hit 11.8 per cent in November,
up from 11.7 per cent in October, with the number of people out
of work in the 17-nation single currency area now nudging 19
million.     While the jobless numbers exceeded 26 million for
the first time across the full 27-member European Union, which
includes Britain and Poland, the EU as a whole recorded an
unchanged 10.7-per cent unemployment rate.  Indeed, there were
more jobless over the past year, according to Eurostat data, in
the 17-nation eurozone - where the number of newly unemployed
was 2.015 million, compared to 2.012 million for the EU.  Facing
a bust property boom and riddled with bad debt in its banks,
Spain recorded the highest unemployment rate of all the European
countries - at 26.6 per cent, worse even than bailed-out Greece.
Among under-25s, both countries saw unemployment rates hovering
around 57 per