France, three million jobless, getting darker

2012-09-26 66

France, the euro zone's second-largest economy, has soared above the three million jobless barrier for the first time since 1999.

The euro zone average unemployment rate is 11.3 percent, and France's is 10.3 percent, but the rise in unemployment is ringing economic and political alarm bells.

More and more job-seekers are suffering, and economists are openly pessimistic.

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