Eurozone unemployment rate dropped from 7.1% to 7.0% in December, better than expectation of 7.1%. EU Unemployment rate dropped from 6.5% to 6.4%.
Eurostat estimates that 13.612m men and women in the EU, of whom 11.481m in the euro area, were unemployed in December. Compared with November, the number of persons unemployed decreased by 210k in the EU and by 185k in the euro area.
