Youth (GC).
"Women are particularly hit by these blows to the 'welfare state', and increasingly forced to take on caring tasks previous guaranteed by the state.
"Most of Italy's three million unemployed are women and youth," says Lepori, a politics student at Bologna University. "In some parts of the south, half those under 26 are out of work. The Italian government proposes to "fight" unemployment by "improving flexibility of the labour market", with greater use of "apprenticeship" and "temporary" contracts, and a wider use of low-paid "socially useful" workers.
In Denmark and Sweden, large parts of the labour and radical movements are strongly opposed to the European Union, and plans for closer integration.
"We find that it is very easy to get in contact with left-wing youth on these questions ", says Anders Lange of the Socialist Workers Party (SAP), "After all, many young people get radicalised on questions with an international dimension, like imperialism, refugees, police powers and international police co-operation, and so on. Also, the EU as such is still a very iraportant question in Denmark. For many young people, internationalism is a credible alterSaturday 19 July Opening forum.
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