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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7710

5 May 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/unemployment
New drop in unemployment in EU as well and Euro-zone

Luxembourg, 04/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Union's statistical office, Eurostat, announced that the seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment in the Euro-zone was 9.4% last March, a drop compared to February (9.5%). One year before (March 1999) it was 10.2%. In the EU as a whole, the rate fell of 8.7% against 8.8% in February.

On a country basis, the lowest rates are those of Luxembourg (2.2%), the Netherlands (2.8%), Austria (3.4%) and Portugal (4.1%), while the highest rate...

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