EU data agency Eurostat said the seasonally-adjusted rate was the same as an upwardly-revised May toll but noted another 123,000 people lost their jobs going into the European summer, bringing the total to nearly 18 million, more than two million up on a year earlier. Marking a 14th successive monthly rise, analysts noted a cumulative rise of 2.248 million people since that series began in April last year, with London-based Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight warning that the unemployment rate "now looks odds-on" to cross 11.5% by the end of the year, with "a very real danger" of reaching 12.0 percent next year. In Germany already on Tuesday, the Federal Labour Agency said raw or unadjusted unemployment also rose sharply in July, with the total number of people out of work up by 66,800 on June at 2.88 million. Eurostat estimates that 25 million men and women are unemployed across the full 27-state EU. The EU uses slightly different statistical calculations for comparisons, but said the rate in the United States in June was 8.2 percent and in Japan the previous month, 4.4 percent.

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