The recovery in the Euro zone has been slow and steady. Most of the member countries have seen improvements in their internal labor markets, however, some see little to no change across months? worth of data. Factory growth in most of the major manufacturing centers of Europe is slowing going into September. Unemployment among young people is seen as a major hurdle against future success as they are at least two or three times as likely to be unemployed.
See "Euro zone in it for the ?long haul? as unemployment flat", CNBC, September 30, 2013