This chapter reviews the recent economic situation, trends and perspectives of the Eurozone. First, we summarize the main features of the double crisis that hurt the euro area since 2008–2009, including the more recent slow recovery. Second, we discuss the policies adopted in the Eurozone...

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, followed by the ‘‘Great Recession’’ and the additional sovereign debt crisis in some peripheral countries of the Eurozone, resulted in huge and persistent effects on European youth labour markets. Theoretical and empirical investigations on this topic...