"The European Union's unemployment rate fell in June for the first time in almost 2½ years, a sign that a long deterioration in the bloc's jobs market may be coming to an end as the economy stabilizes. The number of jobless people in the countries that use the euro also fell, albeit modestly, for the first time in two years. Eurostat, the EU's official statistics agency, said that 10.9% of the workforce in the 27 nations that then formed the EU were unemployed in June, down from 11.0% in May, 2013." (Quoted from article)