Plans in place for a job-rich recovery

摘要

Europe's 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth sets a target of 75% of 20 to 64 year olds in employment by 2020. If the target is to be met, employment in the EU will have to increase by 17.6 million additional jobs from its current level. However, according to the latest figures from Eurostat, the unemployment rate among European member states (EU27) was 10.4% in July 2012, which corresponds to a total of over 25 million people. Among these, more than 5 million are young people, under 25 years old.