Newsweek's analysis ranks 32 European countries on youth unemployment, the share of young people neither working nor studying, life satisfaction, inflation, inequality, government effectiveness, political polarization, public distrust and the ability to organize protests. Greece and France both score 71.3 out of 100, followed by Albania at 66.4, Spain at 65.8 and the United Kingdom at 65.1. France has 18.9 percent youth unemployment and 12.6 percent of people aged 15 to 24 neither in education nor employed, and 55 percent of respondents in a World Risk Poll said their government does not care about them at all. The article argues that grievances over prices, housing and public services overlap across France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Albania without a single clear cause or solution.
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