Europe’s unemployment at its lowest level for a quarter of a century

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Figures released today show that the jobless rate in the eurozone dropped to 6.5% in October - that's the lowest rate since the data started being collected in 1998. In Germany, which has the largest economy in the eurozone, the unemployment rate is now just 3%. In France, the second largest, it's 7.1%. (Italian cashier Elisabetta Guffanti works at an Esselunga supermarket in Milan's Famagosta district on April 30, 2020, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus.)