
Growing unemployment - especially among the young, leading to their emigration – the loss of small firms and rising poverty rates, even among the middle class, are the key impacts of the economic crisis and adjustment measures designed by the ECB/EU Commission/IMF “Troika” for Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Ireland, say Employment Committee MEPs in a resolution voted on Thursday. It calls for a jobs and social recovery plan for these countries.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140212IPR35799/html/Troika-MEPs-call-for-a-jobs-and-social-recovery-plan
2008: European Socio-political Alert "The EU must prepare itself from now on to a massive burst of unemployment for the 3 years to come"
http://www.newropeans-magazine.info/The-EU-must-prepare-itself-from-now-on-to-a-massive-burst-of-unemployment-for-the-3-years-to-come_a21.html