EU youth jobless rate drops
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Youth unemployment hit a record high across the EU in 2013, soaring to 23.7%. Now the start of a €6.4 billion Youth Employment Initiative has enabled 424,000 young people to find work in the past year
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Youth unemployment rates (Aug 2015) YEI allocations (2014-2020)
Spain 48.8% €1,886.9m
Greece* 48.3% €48.3%
Croatia* 43.5% €132.4m
Italy 40.7% €1,135.0m
Cyprus* 32.6% €23.1m
Portugal 31.8% €321.5m
Slovakia* 24.6% €144.4m
France 24.5% €620.3m
Belgium 22.6% €84.9m
Romania* 22.3% €211.9m
Bulgaria 21.3% €110.4m
Ireland 20.7% €136.3m
Sweden 20.4% €88.3m
Poland 19.0% €504.9m
Lithuania 18.9% €63.5m
Hungary 17.7% €99.5m
Slovenia 16.8% €18.4m
UK* 15.4% €412.2m
Latvia 14.1% €58.0m
Czech Rep. 12.4% €27.2m
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Youth jobless rate: 20.4% (Aug 2015)

Youth Employment Initiative: Set up in 2013 to help 20 countries. Greece, Spain and Italy will receive biggest share  €3.4bn
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Source: Eurostat €*latest unemployment rates are for June 2015

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