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Workers in precarious jobs are 2.5 times more likely to suffer a mental disorder (Photo: Pexels)

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What Spain, Greece and Italy are doing to fight rampant youth unemployment

Workers in precarious jobs are 2.5 times more likely to suffer a mental disorder (Photo: Pexels)

Every month, Eurostat publishes youth unemployment figures for the EU-27. Every month, it is led by the same countries: Greece, Spain and Italy.

In the first two, almost three-in-ten young people were unemployed. In the third, just over 22 percent.

The problem is not new in this trio of countries, and recent years (and inadequate active employment policies)...

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Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.

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