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Youngsters shout slogans during a demonstration in Madrid on March 29, 2012 on a national strike day. (DANI POZO/AFP/Getty Images)

FT reporters have written about the issue of youth unemployment around the world as part of our Left Behind series this summer. They covered the fears and hopes of young people struggling to find jobs amid the worst economic crisis since World War II – and the governments’ responses.

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The economic challenges and changes facing the young “ice age generation” in Japan, and the “post-1990″ generation of Chinese youth. Read more

From ghost towns to rooftop farms, here are our picks for today: Read more

Our picks for today include some very different pieces on protests from around the world. Here they are: Read more

Alan Beattie

It’s EUROPE’S SCARIEST CHART (against some pretty stiff competition): Spanish youth unemployment above 50 per cent! One in two young Spaniards on the scrapheap! Packs of ravening wolves roaming the streets of Madrid!

Prepare to be terrified:

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