The unemployment rate across the 16 countries that use the euro has risen again as the effects of the recession continue to be felt.
August's seasonally adjusted rate rose to 9.6%, compared with 9.5% in the previous month, official figures show.
The number of people without a job in the eurozone is now 15.2 million.
Despite the fact that many eurozone economies are recovering from recession, economists expect unemployment rates to continue rising.
Among the member states, the jobless rate was highest in Spain, with a rate of 18.9%, and Latvia, with a rate of 18.3%.
The lowest rate of 3.5% was recorded in the Netherlands.
The overall rate for the eurozone is now at its highest level since May 1999.
The rate across all 27 members of the European Union was 9.1% - a total of 21.9 million people out of work.
This was the highest level of unemployment across the EU as a whole since 2005.read more
