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EU Parliamentary president: “It is not fair that the ordinary citizen should have to pay for banks' and governments' mistakes”
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 @ 6:33 PM

EUROPEAN President Martin Schulz says Spain's unemployment rate is 'shameful' and should be the Union's top priority above any other issues. Speaking at the 40th anniversary summit of the European Confederation of Trade Unions (CES), the Parliament leader said the jobless figures in Spain and certain other EU nations are 'totally unacceptable', especially where the affect the young. Over half of Spain's under-35s are out of work and most have been for more than a year. 

Read more at thinkSPAIN.com



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Tosh said:
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 @ 10:48 PM

A highly qualified and experienced engineer friend and his colleagues working for a very well known German company are being put out of work and replaced by Indians who have little or no experience and have so far messed up everything they have touched. The company is nevertheless determined to get rid of the Europeans and replace them with cheaper Indians which will probably prove to be a false economy but by the time they acknowledge this it will be too late for the workers they have sacked and probably too late for the company. This is another reason there is so much unemployment in Europe and it is shameful.

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