Unemployment: Young Roma particularly concerned

Friday, 14 August 2015

An FRA survey shows the extent of unemployment among young Roma

The European Union Agency for Fundamentals Rights (FRA) released a survey comparing unemployment among young Roma versus non-Roma in eleven European countries. Since 2008, young Europeans were particulalry hurt by unemployment, however sub groups of the category "young people" were not specifically presented as a particularly sensitive groups. This survey by the FRA reminds us that even if young people have all been strongly hit by the economic crisis the category "youngster" is very large and counts multiple subgroups, such as the Roma which are twice more affected by unemployment compared with non Roma.