For example, although in the euro area as a whole the recent rise in employment more than compensated for the decline since the crisis, the unemployment rate here in Centre-Val de Loire 1/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  increased from 5.5% in 2008 to 8.6% last year according to Eurostat.
Before the outbreak of the crisis, the unemployment rate in this region was lower than in the median euro area region; today it is higher. Let me reassure you that such differences across regions, or across countries, do not go unnoticed in the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt.