The Romanian unemployment rate dropped slightly this July against the previous month, reaching 7 percent, according to the National Institute of Statistics.
Compared to July 2011, the unemployment rate decreased by 0.5 percent.
Some 694,000 Romanians aged between 15 and 74 were unemployed in July 2012, down from 727,000 last month and 732,000 in July 2011.
The unemployment rate for males was 7.6 percent while the female unemployment rate was 6.3 percent.
