Jean Claude Juncker: “It is a fact that Malta’s unemployment is rising and if it hits the 7% mark it will become a problem.”
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May 3, 2014 at 9:51pm
Jean Claude Juncker, who is in the running for president of the European Commission, said while in Malta yesterday that the scale of unemployment here should be triggering alarm bells.
While unemployment is still relatively low compared to that of other EU member states, the slide down the slippery slope has begun and should be arrested.
“It is a fact that Malta’s unemployment is rising and if it hits the 7% mark it will become a problem,” Juncker said.
Eurostat has Malta’s unemployment at 6.8%.
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And Joseph Muscat claimed that for every 1 person added to the unemployment register in the last year, he created 9 jobs.
The problem is the 9 jobs were for people who already had jobs.
And another problem is with whom were those jobs created – the state.
The problem is that we have too many unresolved problems for the last 50 years.
Jo will re-form that legendary Stalinist/Mintoff Labour-camp creation “the Pioneer Work Brigade “.
Taxes off the back of the lower middle-class will have to rise, as the MLP can never create wealth.
It just shuffles euros from the right pocket to the left pocket and pretends it earned money.
Had Malta not been a haven for shady people and dodgy business, the employment situation would be as bad as the Spanish.