As a result, unemployment and underemployment have increased in December, as is usual for this month," the Federal Employment Agency's (BA) chairwoman, Andrea Nahles, said in Nuremberg.

Given the decline in demand for labor, the number of job vacancies in January fell by 66,000 compared to the previous year, ...

A total of 2.99 million people were unemployed, the data showed. Agency chief Andrea Nahles said it was normal to see a rise in joblessness at the start of the year but also warned that employment ...

Germany's unemployment rate rose at the start of the year, despite a smaller than expected increase in the number of people out of work, as the weakness of Europe's biggest economy takes its toll in ...