As at August (as per Eurostat) a staggering 25.466 million Europeans were unemployed, with 18 million of them residing in the Eurozone. As if these figures were not bad enough, youth unemployment in Greece in August was 55.4%, and in Spain the rate was 52.9%.
Rest assured that the unemployment rates have worsened since then!
This is a situation that must not be allowed to continue, as the social consequences in those countries where their democracies are being undermined by the economic doctrines of Eurozone bureaucrats will be unimaginable.
As if things were not already bad in Greece, it appears that they will become worse. Greece's Net TV has obtained a draft budget that shows that the Greek economy will contract by 6.1% this year and 3.8% next year.
This is in stark contrast to the view of the European Commission, which expects the Greek economy to display "an insignificant improvement in activity in 2013" (European Economic Forecast Spring 2012 page 71).
The people of Greece, if they have any sense, should flee the Eurozone as fast as their legs will carry them.
