Pope Francis Blasts Youth Unemployment in Europe

Edited by Juan Leandro
2013-11-28 14:10:21

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Buenos Aires, November 28 (RHC)-- Pope Francis has censured the high unemployment rate among young people in Europe, saying the “throw away culture” has discarded a generation of European youth.

In an interview aired on the TN TV channel in Argentina, the Pontiff said: "Today we are living in unjust international system in which 'King Money' is at the center.” Pope Francis added: "It is a throwaway culture that discards young people as well as its older people. In some European countries, without mentioning names, there is youth unemployment of 40 percent and higher."

The head of the Catholic Church also said that a generation of young people lacks the dignity that is brought by work. He alluded to the fact that nearly six million people under the age of 25 are unemployed in the European Union, while about sixty percent of young people are out of job in Spain and Greece.

The Pope said: “A people that cares neither for its youth nor for its older people has no future,” adding: “Young people take society into the future, while the older generation gives society its memory, its wisdom.”

Europe is struggling with an economic crisis that erupted in early 2008, leaving millions unemployed and in financial distress.



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