Italian economic crisis hits the lost generation

  • 12 years ago
The new Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has many challenges as the cost of Italy's borrowing has risen to seven per cent .
 
Unemployment currently stands at eight per cent but youth unemployment is more than 3 times higher. as most twenty and thirty year olds go from short term contract to short term contract without any real expectations of starting a career.

Al Jazeera's Barbara Serra reports from Rome

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