Backlight: Hotel Europe. Go With The Workflow

Amid protests from citizens and (populist) politicians, Northern Europe is sending money to the ailing economies of Southern Europe. But wouldn’t it be better to combat the high youth unemployment in the PIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain) with a better international alignment of Europe’s labour market?

Are the twenty-something’s, who are migrating northwards by the thousands, actually the first real Europeans? They’re enterprising, well-educated, flexible, and know their languages and they’ve never known anything else but a Europe that was a Union.

According to economist and advisor to Barroso Philippe Legrain (‘Aftershock: Reshaping the World Economy After the Crisis’, 2010) freedom of movement for workers is the solution against increasing economic inequality in Europe.