[staytrue]

"there are a further 1.5 million-2 million people on subsidised employment schemes who are, in fact, looking for real jobs. "

Unemployment rate at 12%.

[Armando Guerra]

there are a further 1.5 million-2 million people on subsidised employment schemes who are, in fact, looking for real jobs.

I do not believe that those people are actually counted in the 12%. A European I know explained that that in France, Germany and others the true unemployment rate would be 20% but for the government "make-work" programs taking them off the officially "unemployed" statistics.

[antiRepublicrat]

Unemployment rate at 12%.

That's only the average. It's in the 20s in some places, especially in the East.