In October, Germany?s unemployment rate dropped to 6.7% leaving only 2.8 million people out of work. In Western Germany, the total number of people unemployed has fallen by 18,000 in a report released Thursday. Major companies in Germany plan to add more jobs, which will further decrease the unemployment rate.
See "German Unemployment Unexpectedly Drops Most in Six Months", Alessandro Speciale, Bloomberg News, October 30, 2014