France's unemployment drops in August

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Unemployment in France declined in the month of August for the first time in more than a two-year period, the latest data released by the labour ministry revealed on Wednesday. The total number of people claiming for initial unemployment benefits decreased by 50,000 or 1.5% on a monthly basis in August, when the number of unemployed people totalled 3.24 million.


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