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What Are the Biggest Challenges Facing Europe in 2015?

The 2014 World Economic Forum’s Survey on the Global Agenda identified three key challenges for Europe in 2015. You can probably guess what they are.

If you cannot, in the opinion of the WEF, Europe’s three biggest issues will be:

  • Fostering economic growth and innovation
  • Youth unemployment
  • EU-Russia relations
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Europe Top 3 challenges in 2015

Certainly, Italy has considerable problems on the economic growth, innovation, and youth unemployment fronts. Attempts are being made to rectify the situation though progress in Italy is proving very slow.

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+Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy, for many years. Alex has been interviewed by the BBC on Italy issues. He tweets news and information about Italy to over 37,000 Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly on Twitter.

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