歐元區(qū)青年失業(yè)率達24.4% 創(chuàng)下歷史新高.

　　歐元區(qū)青年失業(yè)率達24.4% 創(chuàng)下歷史新高

　　Eurozone youth unemployment reaches record high of 24.4%

　　The crisis facing the younger generation across the Eurozone worsened last month as youth unemployment hit a new record high of 24.4% with under-25s in Spain, Italy and Portugal finding it harder to get jobs.

　　The grim news on on employment came as the Netherlands was stripped of its prized AAA credit rating despite the country&aposs recent exit from a year-long recession.

　　Ratings agency Standard & Poor&aposs said on Friday that weakening growth prospects showed the country would struggle to improve its financial stability and generate new jobs.

　　It said: "The downgrade rlects our opinion that the Netherlands&apos growth prospects are now weaker than we had previously anticipated, and the real GDP per capita trend growth rate is persistently lower than that of peers."

　　It cited weakening consumer demand, high levels of personal debt and falling house prices for keeping consumer spending and tax receipts low in the next few years. One in four Dutch homebuyers is in negative equity as a result of falling property values.

　　Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister, said S&P&aposs downgrade to AA+ was disappointing when the economy had returned to growth.

　　S&P&aposs action leaves only three members of the eurozone with a top rating from all three agencies – Germany, Luxembourg and Finland.

　　The Eurozone jobless data showed Spain&aposs youth unemployment rate has now increased to 57.4%, only marginally below Greece&aposs August high of 58% - which remains the highest rate of youth unemployment for any country in the eurozone&aposs history. Italy&aposs youth unemployment rate rose to 41.2%, from 40.5% the previous month. In Portugal, it rose to 36.5% from 36.2%.

　　The startling figures from southern Europe contrast with rates in the north where Germany has a 7.8% youth unemployment rate and the Netherlands an 11.6% rate.

　　Italy&aposs credit rating is perilously close to entering junk status and Rome is lobbying hard in Brussels for more time to cut the country&aposs annual dicit. The coalition government headed by Enrico Letta said on Friday it would call a fresh confidence vote in parliament, despite winning a vote earlier in the week, to confirm his government&aposs majority after the withdrawal of Silvio Berlusconi&aposs Forza Italia party from the ruling coalition.

　　Letta said the vote would be held after his centre-lt Democratic party elects a new leader on 8 December, and would be based on a new agenda for 2014 which would be discussed with coalition partners.

　　"The confidence vote will allow us to pass from dence into attack," said Letta, whose government is backed by the Democratic party, a centrist group Civic Choice and a centre-right group that broke away from Forza Italia.

　　Considering the chaos in Italian politics and the credit rating downgrades affecting some of the EU&aposs traditional paymasters, France and the Netherlands in particular, there are still many analysts who fear for the eurozone&aposs growth prospects over the next decade.

　　Youth unemployment also remains a scar that shows little sign of healing. While the adult unemployment rate fell across the eurozone from 12.2 to 12.1%, 3.6m under-25s are now unemployed, an increase of 15,000 on the previous month.

　　據(jù)英國《衛(wèi)報》報道，歐元區(qū)的青年人失業(yè)率在10月達到24.4%，創(chuàng)下歷史新高。年輕一代面臨的就業(yè)危機逾發(fā)惡化，特別是西班牙、意大利和葡萄牙的青年(25歲以下)找工作格外困難。

　　這則關(guān)于就業(yè)問題殘酷消息傳出之時，荷蘭剛剛從長達一年的經(jīng)濟蕭條中有所恢復(fù)，卻未能保住“AAA”的信用評級。

　　根據(jù)評級組織標準普爾在11月29日發(fā)表的報告，荷蘭當前經(jīng)濟增長前景越發(fā)疲軟，仍然面臨保持金融穩(wěn)定和增加就業(yè)機會的艱巨任務(wù)。

　　標準普爾說道：“荷蘭信用等級下調(diào)反映了我們的觀點，即荷蘭的經(jīng)濟增長幅度低于我們之前的預(yù)期，而人均GDP的趨勢增長率也一直低于其他國家。”

　　標準普爾列舉了一些荷蘭經(jīng)濟的現(xiàn)狀：消費需求持續(xù)低迷，個人負債率高居不下，為了刺激消費而下調(diào)房價，未來幾年的稅收收入持續(xù)偏低。由于房價下跌，擁有房產(chǎn)的荷蘭人中有四分之一已處于負資產(chǎn)狀態(tài)。

　　荷蘭的財政大臣杰羅恩?迪塞布洛姆表示，荷蘭的經(jīng)濟剛剛開始復(fù)蘇，而“標準普爾”卻將荷蘭降級為“AA+”，這無疑令人失望。

　　標準普爾的這個動作讓歐元區(qū)只有三個國家仍擁有標普最高的AAA評級，分別是德國、盧森堡和芬蘭。

　　歐元區(qū)失業(yè)數(shù)據(jù)顯示，西班牙的青年失業(yè)率增長最快，現(xiàn)已達到57.4%，僅比希臘在8月創(chuàng)下的最高紀錄58%低0.6個百分點。意大利的青年失業(yè)率由10月的40.5%增長至41.2%，葡萄牙則由36.2% 增長至 36.5%。

　　與南歐國家驚人的高失業(yè)率相比，北部國家的情況較為樂觀，德國和荷蘭的青年失業(yè)率分別只有7.8%和11.6%。

　　意大利的信用評級已降到了難堪的地步了。意大利政府正在努力地向歐盟總部爭取時間來解決財政赤字問題。11月26日意大利聯(lián)合政府總理萊塔在針對2014 年預(yù)算案的信任投票中獲勝，這令其所領(lǐng)導的聯(lián)合政府在經(jīng)歷了前總理貝盧斯科尼的意大利力量黨退出的打擊后，得到一定程度的穩(wěn)定。盡管如此，萊塔領(lǐng)導的新聯(lián)合政府還是在29日宣布，即將發(fā)起新一輪的信任投票。

　　萊塔稱，投票將在12月8日在他所在的中左翼民主黨選出一位新黨首之后進行。投票將會依照與其他聯(lián)合政府成員商定的2014年日程規(guī)劃來進行。

　　萊塔說，“信任投票將使我們的處境轉(zhuǎn)守為攻?！比R塔政府的主要支持者是民主黨、中間派聯(lián)盟Civic Choice，以及一個從意大利力量黨分離出來的中右翼組織。

　　鑒于意大利政治上的混亂與標普評級的下降會影響到一些歐盟的傳統(tǒng)出資國，尤其是法國和荷蘭，仍有很多分析員對歐元區(qū)未來10年的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展前景感到擔憂。

　　青年失業(yè)問題就像一道不會愈合的傷疤。歐元區(qū)的成年人失業(yè)率由12.2%下降到 12.1%，目前約有360萬25歲以下的青年處于失業(yè)狀態(tài)，這一數(shù)據(jù)比10月多出1.5萬。