European Union Launches Youth Volunteer Corps

European? Aged 18 to 30? Unemployed? Want to work abroad for pocket money? The EU's new Solidarity Corps may be for you. Would-be recruits and campaigners on youth issues offered a wary welcome Wednesday to the European Commission's launch of a scheme to give 100,000 people a chance to work elsewhere in Europe for up to year, either as volunteers or paid trainees. With mass unemployment among the young helping to fuel a crisis for the European Union, where nationalists have...

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