Youth unemployment, Europe’s unshakeable challenge
BRUSSELS: Europe’s economy is thriving on the back of decade-high growth, the latest official data suggests, with rising consumer demand and an overall unemployment figure that, month after month, keeps falling.
But lurking behind this positive picture of a European recovery on the march is youth unemployment, the joblessness of the under 25s that since the crushing recession of the eurozone debt crisis has become an economic scourge that Europe cannot shake.
In 2017, the picture remained stark. The unemployment level…