The number of unemployed people in Germany fell for the ninth-consecutive month in June as hiring continued to pick up, data released Tuesday showed, according to dpa. Seasonally adjusted unemployment in Europe's biggest economy dropped by 1,000 from May to 2.79 million this month, led by a decline in the numbers of people looking for jobs in the eastern part of the nation, the Federal Employment Agency said. The jobless rate held at 6.4 per cent, its lowest level since German unification in 1990. An increase of 2,000 unemployed in the western part of the nation was offset by a fall of 3,000 in the country's former communist east. In seasonally unadjusted terms, unemployment was down 51,000 from May to 2.711 million. That was 122,000 less than in June last year.
