Expert on EU Unemployment and EU Summit

　　EU leaders have reached a deal on the 2014-2020 budgets at the EU summit in Brussels.

 

　　The deal is designed to speed up spending on youth employment.

 

　　A total of 26-million people on the continent are unemployed¹.

 

　　Nearly a quarter of young people aged² 18 to 25 in the EU have no job.

 

　　In Greece and Spain it is more than half.

 

　　Tens of thousands of young Europeans are now on the move in search of work.

 

　　It is estimated more than 100-thousand Spanish graduates have already left their country.

 

　　The unemployment level in Spain is heading towards 28-percent.

 

　　Now for more on this situation, we are joined live on the line with Mike Bastin, Visiting Professor at China's University of International Business and Economics.

1 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。

2 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。