EU leaders will gather in Brussels at the end of the week to discuss both youth employment as well as further steps towards banking union.
With 26 million people without a job in the EU, and unemployment among young people above 50 percent in Greece and Spain, the issue has become a political flashpoint.
But the gap between rhetoric about Europe's "lost generation", and practical measures to get them into a job remains high.
So far the EU has agreed a youth guarantee scheme,...
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