Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Oh, good plan

Naturally, people think we should do that here:

Unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro hit another all-time high in May, official data showed Monday.

Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said the eurozone's unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage point in May to 12.1 percent. April's unemployment rate was initially estimated to be 12.2 percent, but it was revised down to 12.0 percent thanks to new data, particularly from France.

The figures will make sobering reading for the region's politicians as they gather in Berlin this week to tackle the problem of youth unemployment — nearly one in four people aged under-25 are out of work — and the damage it is doing to the eurozone's economy and social fabric.

3 comments:

Montag said...

And yet they did not hear the wheels of the tumbrels....

pansypoo said...

it took famine to get that started......let them eat mcdonald's

Anonymous said...

Had to look up "tumbrels". Carts used to haul the condemned to the guillotine.