Silent Scream

Just how DO you Zapatero an otherwise developing nation?

Spain has gone from being a European model for growth, creating more than a third of all euro-zone jobs over the past decade, to having the region's highest unemployment rate.

With 4.13 million people out of work, Spain's unemployment hit 17.9 percent in the second quarter. The EU statistics agency Eurostat puts the figure even higher, at 18.1 percent.

Nonetheless, Europeans take the usual tack: march against global issues that are beyond the control of their local governments, but display their ‘therapeutic invective’ anyway.



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