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More global concerns of unrest and riots, due to unemployment.

Is it a sign of what’s to come here?

Crazy?

Do you think that is what the spainiard pictured below thought on his way to work that morning?

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Global employment crisis will stir social unrest, warns UN agency

Global employment will not recover to pre-crisis levels until 2015 if current policies are pursued, creating social tension, the International Labour Organisation has warned

Garbages containers burns in central Barcelona during the general strike held in Spain on September 29, 2010: Global employment crisis will stir social unrest, warns UN agency

Rubbish bins burn in central Barcelona during the general strike Photo: AFP/GETTY
Europe has gone out on astrike as protesters took to the streets of Spain, Belgium, Italy and Greece to demonstrate against tough austerity measures.

Riot police hit out at demonstrators during protests in Barcelona, Spain Photo: AP

The United Nations work agency said it was putting back by two years from 2013 its previous assessment of the time needed to create the 22 million jobs still needed to regain the pre-crisis level – 14 million in rich countries and 8 million in developing states.

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