Greece had an unemployment rate of 21% as of December 2011, according to figures from Eurostat, the European Union statistics office.

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Greece had the greatest increase in its unemployment rate of all the European Union countries last year, climbing from 14.3% in December 2010 to 21% a year later, according to figures from Eurostat, the European Union statistics office.

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Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said the eurozone economy shrank by 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2012 from the previous three-month period.

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