{"id":598903,"date":"2025-11-28T09:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598903\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:02:16","slug":"german-unemployment-rises-less-than-expected-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598903\/","title":{"rendered":"German unemployment rises less than expected in November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -The number of people out of work in \u200bGermany rose less than expected in November,\u200c labour office figures showed on Friday, underscoring a \u200csluggish recovery and persistent lack of momentum in the job market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In seasonally adjusted terms, the jobless figure rose by 1,000 to 2.973 \u2060million, while \u200canalysts and economists had predicted an increase by 5,000 in a Reuters \u200dpoll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The seasonally adjusted jobless rate was unchanged from 6.3% a month earlier, in line with \u200bthe forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The economy ministry last month slightly \u200craised its economic growth projection for this year to 0.2% from the stagnation foreseen previously, and forecast 1.3% growth next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Labour office head Andrea Nahles said the \u2060number of people in employment \u200bwas stagnating and demand for \u200blabour remained subdued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised to haul Germany out of the \u200ddownturn with a \u2060sharp increase in infrastructure and defence spending, but those measures are taking longer \u2060than expected to translate into better conditions on the ground.\u200c<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Writing by Friederike Heine, \u200cEditing by Miranda Murray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -The number of people out of work in \u200bGermany rose less than expected in November,\u200c labour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[133623,2000,299,1824,188086],"class_list":{"0":"post-598903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-andrea-nahles","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-persistent-lack"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}