Markus Dettmer
Markus Dettmer is the economics editor for the Berlin weekly Der Spiegel.
Updated: 18 January 2017
By Markus Dettmer
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Youth unemployment: The ‘lost generation’ left by the wayside
Der Spiegel (Hamburg) 94 -
Cyprus: EU bailout for Russian oligarchs?
Der Spiegel (Hamburg) 12
With nearly one in four young Europeans out of work, jobs must be one of the Union’s top priorities. But member states, especially those in the south, seem incapable of making the reforms that would set them in the right direction. 
The EU, the IMF and the government of Cyprus are negotiating a 10-billion euro bailout for the country’s ailing banks. Brussels doesn’t want to let the country go bankrupt. But there is a danger that the financial injection could be used to launder dirty money that passes through financial institutions on the island.