Eurozone unemployment rate dropped to 6.8% in Mar, EU dropped to 6.2%

Eurozone unemployment rate dropped from 6.9% to 6.8% in March, matched expectations. EU unemployment rate dropped from 6.3% to 6.2%.

Eurostat estimates that 13.374m men and women in EU, of whom 11.274m in Eurozone, were unemployed. Compared with February, the number of persons unemployed decreased by -85k in EU and by -76k in Eurozone .

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