"Large parts of Europe" have endured "a lost decade"; incomes per head are "lower than before the [2008] global financial crisis". While Germany is doing "relatively well", there's "soaring youth unemployment" in France, Italy and Spain. "In a well-functioning economy, there's rapid growth, the benefits of which are shared widely," Stiglitz writes, but "in Europe we see the opposite".
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