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. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
