Unemployment news

Bulgaria posted the lowest seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate among EU member states in Southeast Europe (SEE) in March, at 3.2%, followed by Slovenia with 3.9%, Eurostat said.

Romania's unemployment rate stood at 6.1% in March, 0.1 percentage points (pp) higher than a month earlier, the statistical office said on Thursday, quoting provisional data.

The Western Balkan economies - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia - need to mobilise the underused labour potential to sustain economic growth and ease acute labour shortages expected from 2030, the World Bank said on Wednesday.

Slovenia's unemployment rate was 3.9% in March, 0.1 percentage points lower than in February and unchanged compared to a year earlier, the country's statistical office said on Thursday.

Croatia’s unemployment rate fell to 4.3% in March from 4.7% in February, the statistical office said on Tuesday.