Youth Unemployment in Europe
On an initiative of the IP-Journal of the German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP), the Study Committee for Franco-German Relations (Cerfa) of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) and the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) are regularly publishing short contributions on a common subject, written by three experts of these institutes. The purpose of these “Weimar Triangle Analyses” is to give the French, Polish and German views on central questions of European politics and European integration.
In this edition, our Weimar Triangle authors (Nele Katharina Wissmann, Patryk Toporowski and Almut Möller) address the issue of youth unemployment in the European Union and in particular in their individual countries.
These three contributions may be downloaded free of charge from this website as well as from the website of the DGAP:
https://ip-journal.dgap.org/en/blog/eye-europe/weimar-triangle-youth-unemployment-france (for the French point of view)
https://ip-journal.dgap.org/en/blog/eye-europe/weimar-triangle-youth-unemployment-poland (for the Polish point of view)
https://ip-journal.dgap.org/en/blog/eye-europe/weimar-triangle-youth-unemployment-germany (for the German point of view)
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Youth Unemployment in Europe
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