Europe’s Ailing Social Model: Facts & Fairy-Tales

March 25, 2006

An excellent analysis on what ails Europe and remedies for the same. The problem always is these kind of major changes happen only if there is major crisis or a new leadership emerges.
Europe'’s present social model is unable to tackle the modern challenges of globalization, and has left Europe with gigantic problems: an unsurmountable public debt, a rapidly ageing population, 19 million unemployed, and an overall youth unemployment rate of 18%. The unemployment figures may easily be doubled to account for hidden unemployment. The untold reality is that Europe'’s real unemployment stands at the level of the 1932 Depression.

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