article_snippet: Unemployment is falling faster in Britain than any country in Europe, new official figures showed today.
article_snippet: A jobs surge means that in the last year UK has overtaken the Czech Republic, Malta and Luxembourg to have the third lowest unemployment rate in all of the EU.
article_snippet: Ministers hailed the figures which show the UK jobless rate at 5.6 per cent, half the Eurozone average.
article_snippet: Unemployment in UK has fallen sharply to the third lowest level in UK, while Spain and Greece remains over 20 per cent .
article_snippet: The figure in UK has fallen from more than 8 per cent three years ago, to 5.6 per cent in the latest league table.
article_snippet: In the middle of 2013, UK also had a higher unemployment rate than Denmark and Romania.
article_snippet: The figure in the UK has fallen faster than all major economies from 7.1 per cent to 5.6 per cent, the government said.
article_snippet: Youth unemployment across the EU fell by 562,000 to 4.9million, the figures also showed.
article_snippet: In January 2015, the youth unemployment rate was 21.2 per cent in the EU the EU and 22.9 per cent in the eurozone area.
article_snippet: In the UK latest figures used by Eurostat show the UK latest figures used by Eurostat was 16.1 per cent in November.
highlights_snippet: Ministers say Britain has seen the fastest fall in unemployment in a year .
  
highlights_snippet: 5.6% unemployment rate is half the level seen across the eurozone .