EU as an economic space has huge internal periphery with all the typical problems thereof (high unemployment, flight of young qualified workforce elsewhere). It is quite easy to visualize, actually.
My wife is a huge fan of Spanish culture. We travel there often (pre-Covid, but hopefully also post-Covid). Andalucía is by far the worst region in Western Europe I have seen, as far as hopelessness and lack of future prospects goes.
Who'd have thought that warm weather causes unemployment?
Or perhaps being a post-Roman nation causes unemployment?
Even though I'm partly kidding, I'm partly not.
Some of these things are so consistent, I wonder if we gloss over them and should contemplate they are underlying issues whereas 'employment policy' may be less relevant than we think. Maybe in some cultures people like to work more than others.
Obviously Europe is not perfect, and any huge area has different problems, some large. But the specific problem I was responding to isn't, and may very well be the opposite (in large parts of Europe at least, Andalucia is of course well known for its problems, even within Spain).
EU as an economic space has huge internal periphery with all the typical problems thereof (high unemployment, flight of young qualified workforce elsewhere). It is quite easy to visualize, actually.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
My wife is a huge fan of Spanish culture. We travel there often (pre-Covid, but hopefully also post-Covid). Andalucía is by far the worst region in Western Europe I have seen, as far as hopelessness and lack of future prospects goes.