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European youth 'consigned to the scrapheap of unemployment'

Dec 20, 2013
Marketplace has been looking at youth unemployment in Europe. The numbers are terrifying. Among 18 to 24 year olds in Greece, 60 percent are jobless. In southern Spain, it's 74 percent.

In Italy, youth unemployment hovers around 35 percent

Dec 19, 2013
Italy is out of recession now, but business leaders there say the recovery will be slow and tough.

Youth unemployment in Spain still high despite reform efforts

Dec 18, 2013
A continuation of our Jobless Generation series.

Compared to its neighbors, more job prospects for youth in Germany

Dec 17, 2013
Youth unemployment sits at almost 24 percent across the EU. But in Germany, it's less than 8 percent.

Young Greeks struggle with lack of work

Dec 16, 2013
Many Greeks in their late twenties or early thirties live at home, dependent on their parents.

What does 74% youth unemployment feel like?

Dec 16, 2013
Italy's prime minister calls youth unemployment his country's "true nightmare."

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