Mubasher: Confidence in the Eurozone economy improved in December, while unemployment declined, data from the European Union's statistics office Eurostat and the European Commission showed on Thursday.
Economic sentiment in the Eurozone rose to 106.8 points in December, from 106.1 points in November.
Meanwhile, the business climate indicator calculated by the European Commission rose to 0.41 in December from 0.36 in November.
Eurostat said that euro zone unemployment fell to its lowest level in more than four years in November, of 10.5% of the workforce from a revised 10.6% in October.