Les perspectives de croissance et d’emploi restent sombrent pour 2013

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European Union Survey Says Outlook for Growth and Jobs Remains ‘Bleak’ for 2013

[The New York Times]

Europe faces rising unemployment for at least another year amid the most painful economic convulsions to hit the Continent since it first set out on a path of economic and political integration more than half a century ago, the European Commission reported Wednesday.

Europe’s job crisis, which has left more than 25 million people without work, has stirred rising public hostility to the European Union and has severely strained the social fabric in hardest-hit members like Greece and Spain, where unemployment has soared to over 25 percent. “The economic and employment outlook is bleak and has worsened in recent months and is not expected to improve in 2013,” the European Commission, the union’s executive arm, said in a statement accompanying the release of its Annual Growth Survey, a yearly report on Europe’s economic outlook.
“The E.U. is currently the only major region in the world where unemployment is still rising,” the statement said.

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