NEW: Youth unemployment is as high as 66% in one EU region

Latest official figures show EU’s uneven playing field for the young

The UK’s average rate is 11.3%, according to the EU

It is said that the UK’s young people have for many years been getting a rose-tinted view of the EU from the heavily Europhile and anti-Brexit teaching establishment.

Below we present highlights from the latest official report on youth unemployment across the EU from the statistics agency (Eurostat), which shows youth unemployment rates across the 281 regions of the EU.

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Worst regions in EU for youth unemployment

Melilla (Spain) - 66.1%
Ceuta (Spain) - 62.4%
West Macedonia (Greece) - 62.0%
Mayotte (France) - 61.1%
North Aegean (Greece) - 56.7%
Guadeloupe (France) - 55.2%
Campania (Italy) - 53.6%
Sicily (Italy) - 53.6%
Calabria (Italy) - 52.7%
Continental Greece (Greece) - 51.1%

Comparison with the UK

In the UK region of ‘Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire’, the youth unemployment rate is 8.8%. The highest rate is found in ‘Outer London - West and North West’, where it is recorded as 20.0%. The UK average is 11.3%.

In more than 80% of the 281 EU regions, the unemployment rate for young people was at least twice that of total unemployment in the same region.

The overall picture

Looking at unemployment as a whole across the EU, ie not only young people, here is the overall picture :-

What are “EU Regions” and what is “NUTS”?

Since the late 1980s the EU has been using its own system for dividing up the countries of the EU into regions rather than nation states. In 2003, this was made into a formal Regulation of the EU Parliament and the EU Council.

The highest level is called ‘NUTS 0’. This is its name. We kid you not. If you live in the UK dear reader, in fact you live in EU NUTS 0 Region UK.

There are 281 regions at NUTS level 2 across the EU. The UK has been allocated 41 of these. You can read more about this in an article we published three weeks ago here.

Observations

Dear student, or young worker, or young unemployed person,

We think you deserve to have as much information as possible about the EU. It is a simple fact that the teaching establishment in the UK is massively pro-Remain. If you want justification for that statement you are quite right to want it.

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75% of secondary school teachers backed Remain
Nearly 90% of university lecturers backed Remain

Above is how the teaching profession voted in the EU Referendum, according to the Times Educational Supplement survey at the time.

The information in this article all comes from the EU itself. It will not be reported on the BBC, nor will you see it anywhere else, we suspect.

We just thought you’d like to know what EU membership has meant – and continues to mean - for millions of young people across the EU.

[ Sources: Eurostat official data for 2018 | EU Commission information on the Regions ]

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Reader Comments 9

1. catherine, Dollar , Monday, May 06, 2019, 05:58:

Re teachers and lecturers, Professor John Tasoulias pointed out the other day on Twitter: "It used to be thought bad form to exploit an ex officio academic role - e.g. as a university chancellor welcoming people to an academic lecture - in order to express a partisan political view. Sadly this happens often now and is part of the erosion of academic freedom." Yup.
I'm sure we've all seen evidence of lecturers promoting Remain (as well as the coverage here). Do they tell their students and postgrads about the unemployment in the EU?

2. Faye, Maidstone , Monday, May 06, 2019, 06:43:

Let's hope our youth will rise above the brainwashing exercise they're having to go through in the education system and come out of it stronger than ever when they see for themselves just what is really going on in the EU. Helping other countries is all very well and nice - but just as long as it's in proportion and doesn't sacrifice the future of our own youth.

3. Not4EU, London , Monday, May 06, 2019, 07:41:

Interesting to note that the EU includes Iceland, Switzerland and Turkey, as well as the UK within it's April map of EU 'Administrative boundaries'. It all helps to cover & lower the 'real' average EU unemployment rates.
It's also interesting to note that the 'freedom' movements across Europe are being driven & well-supported by the young, unlike here where they seem to prefer to be enslaved & told what to think by unelected bureaucrats. They simply do not comprehend that the rights & freedoms that they take for granted, & one of the reasons that immigrants came, is due to our 'bottom-up' system of law, justice & freedoms, habeas corpus, which must necessarily subsumed into the opposite type EU 'top-down' legal system of corpus juris. We are already seeing the impacts within our legal system. We can no longer regard this country as the home of justice, equity & equality under the law. Democracy has also been shown to have failed (twice) & is being actively subverted. Three times, given the current ridiculous spin that the local election results mean that the surrender document must now be ratified.
They're still not listening. Zey are only obeying orders. If we were a country in, say, Africa, which had had a democratic vote that was then refused to be implemented, the UN, human rights orgs and probably most of those actively trying to overturn our referendum would rightly be screaming from the rooftops. Here, they & the mockingbird remainstream media, well 'rewarded' by the EU, stay silent. The swamp is deep & full of terrors. It will not end well. We can only start to fix this country when we have left the EU.

4. Sydney Ashurst , Monday, May 06, 2019, 08:09:

Students going to university with EEE grades at A-levels is “lunacy”, an education minister has said as he warns it is “madness” but the Government has to “suck it up”.
“But unfortunately there’s a body of people out there because they then never have to pick up the tab for the results of that kind of madness that’s the problem.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says 31% of graduates are overeducated for the job they are doing.
Graduates in arts and humanities were more likely to be under-using their education. Could it be that the New Universities do not offer courses promoting individual thought, and workplace skills.
Have Messrs Blair and Clegg really improved Education standards?

5. Adam Hiley , Monday, May 06, 2019, 13:15:

time to get tough with the crazy LibLabCon gang get rid of them leave the EU unilaterally to hell with so-called international law

6. Pessimistic , Monday, May 06, 2019, 16:15:

Oh yes Adam, I wish it would happen exactly like that.
Let the eu sink in its own utopian claptrap.

7. kzb , Tuesday, May 07, 2019, 09:02:

This may simply show us that the UK is better at fiddling the unemployment figures than other countries.
Apparently there were 808,000 NEETS (16-24 years old, Q1 2018) in the UK. This is about 37% of the age group.
Go figure that one.
And there are not enough workers to pick the crops (apparently)!

8. kzb , Tuesday, May 07, 2019, 09:06:

Correction to previous comment: the figure of 808,000 NEETS is high but it is not 37% of the age group. It is about 11% as stated in the article. I still regard 808,000 young people not spending their time gainfully as shocking though.

9. Edward Sansom , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 07:51:

Really trash. What wonderful food for morons. Do you say anything nice about EU? When I retired I offered my services free of charge and served on expert committees. I saw the good and bad but no worse than the UK. I will read your publication and hope I can change my original opinion and find a balance critique showing good and bad.

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