EU youths hit worst by lack of work

Europe’s youth are bearing the brunt of unemployment created by the economic crisis, according to official data from Eurostat published on the 23 July 2009 that highlighted the risk of the recession leaving a permanent scar on the continent’s younger generation.

Eurostat: News Release No.109, 2009: Five million young people unemployed in the EU27 in the first quarter 2009 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-press-releases/-/3-23072009-BP

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