Nous avons 25% de nos jeunes sur le carreau, contrairement aux autres pays européens. We've got 25% of our young people out cold on the floor, unlike the other European countries.
We've got 25% of our young people out cold on the floor, unlike the other European countries.
As Jérôme has gone to great pains to point out, 22% (not 25%) of the active population between ages 15 and 24 is unemployed, not 22% of the total population. In terms of the total population in that age group, the unemployment figure is 8%, (and is not greatly different to the number for comparable European countries).
Baroin (who was trotted out to communicate on a topic that is not in his ministerial brief, presumably because he is young and a plausible little shit) is just perpetuating (with some embellishment) the false but increasingly widely received wisdom.
Predictably, no journalistic comment or correction was to be heard.
