Europe’s youth has opportunity to do it better

Take the entire population of Ireland and increase it by 50%. That gets you to six million which is the number of people unemployed in Spain today.

As part of the construction team that built the EU project, Ireland has to take its share of blame for this employment crisis, and it needs to do better in finding solutions to it.

Ireland shares part of its current structural problems with Spain. Both countries gorged themselves on a property boom and bust that ended up crippling their banking systems, an act which in itself has suffocated both economies.