Googling about this to confirm things made me find this pretty neat public data graph tool from google https://www.google.co.jp/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd

Googling about this to confirm things made me find this pretty neat public data graph tool from google https://www.google.co.jp/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country:es:el:it&hl=en&dl=en#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country:es:el:it:fr:de:ie:pt&ifdim=country_group&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false https://www.google.co.jp/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa... Basically Spain and Greece are in a different category from the rest of the EU (at least w.r.t. unemployment). Spain is recovering like Greece is, though Greece is suffering more from the precarity of their initial situation. But Spain is still at 22% unemployment Spain is also seeing negative GDP growth since the start of the recession, and isn't expected to hit positive GDP growth until 2018 at the earliest.